Emerging Elderhood: A Bibliography

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Baab, Lynn M. Embracing Midlife: Congregations as Support Systems. Herndon, Va: Alban Institute, 1999.   

Bankson, Marjory Zoet. Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World. Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths, 2010.  

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.   

Berman, Phillip L., and Connie Goldman, eds. The Ageless Spirit. New York: Ballantine, 1992.   

Bianchi, Eugene C. Aging as a Spiritual Journey. New York: Crossroad, 1982.   

Bianchi, Eugene C. Elder Wisdom: Crafting Your Own Elderhood. New York: Crossroad, 1994.  

Birren, James E., and K. Warner Schaie, eds. Handbook of the Psychology of Aging. 6th ed. Boston: Elsevier Academic Press, 2006.   

Bridges, William. Transitions. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004.  

Carlson, Dosia. Engaging in Ministry with Older Adults. Herndon, Va: Alban Institute, 1997.   

Changes: Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage. New York: Church Publishing, 2007.  

Coles, Robert. The Old Ones of New Mexico. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1973.  

Empereur, James L. Prophetic Anointing: God’s Call to the Sick, the Elderly, and the Dying. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1982.  

Erikson, Erik H., The Life Cycle Completed. Extended Version with New Chapters on the Ninth Stage of Development by Joan M. Erikson. New York: Norton, 1997.  

Erikson, Erik H., Joan M. Erikson, and Helen Q. Kivnick. Vital Involvement in Old Age. New York: Norton, 1986.  

Fischer, Kathleen R. Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1998.  

Fischer, Kathleen R. Winter Grace: Spirituality for the Later Years. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1985.   

Fowler, James W., Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian: Adult Development and Christian Faith, rev. ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.  

Friedman, Dayle A. Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2008.  

Friedman, Edwin H. “A Family Approach to Life-Cycle Ceremonies.” Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue. New York: Guilford Press, 1985. 147-192.   

Friedman, Edwin H. “Systems and Ceremonies: A Family View of Rites of Passage.” What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Unpublished Writings and Diaries. New York: Seabury, 2009. 50-83.    

Gelpi, Donald L. “The Ritual of Anointing.” Committed Worship: A Sacramental Theology for Converting Christians. Vol. II, The Sacraments of Ongoing Conversion. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1993. 171-197.  .

Harris, J. Gordon. Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly. 2^nd ed. New York: Haworth Pastoral Press, 2008.   

Hauerwas, Stanley, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador, David Cloutier, eds. Growing Old in Christ. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003.   

Houston, James M., and Michael W. Parker. A Vision for the Aging Church: Renewing Ministry for and by Seniors. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011.    

Kelcourse, Felicity Brock, ed. Human Development and Faith: Life-cycle Stages of Body, Mind, and Soul. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2004.     

Kenny, James, and Stephen Spicer. Elder Care: Coping with Late-Life Crisis. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989.   

Kimble, Melvin A., Susan H. McFadden, James W. Ellor, James J. Seeber, eds. Aging, Spirituality, and Religion: A Handbook, Volume 1. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.   

Kimble, Melvin A., Susan H. McFadden, eds. Aging, Spirituality, and Religion: A Handbook, Volume 2. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.   

Laslett, Peter. A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.   

Liebert, Elizabeth. “Seasons and Stages: Models and Metaphors of Human Development.” In Her Own Time: Women and Developmental Issues in Pastoral Care. Edited by Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, 19-41. Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2000.  

Maves, Paul B. Faith for the Older Years: Making the Most of Life’s Second Half. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1986.   

McFadden, Susan H., “Gerontology and the Psychology of Religion,” Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Edited by Raymond F. Paloutzian & Crystal L. Park. New York: Guilford Press, 2005. 162-176.

McClendon, James William, Jr., Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today’s Theology. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1974.  

Meilaender, Gilbert. “Thinking About Aging.” First Things. April 2011. http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/03/thinking-about-aging. accessed August 10, 2011.

Mitchell, Kenneth R., and Herbert Anderson. All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1983.  

Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto. New York: Meridian, 1994.   

Nouwen, Henri J. M., and Walter J. Gaffney. Aging: The Fulfillment of Life. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Image, 1990. Original edition 1974.  

Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman and Ronald S. Miller. From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older. New York: Warner Books, 1995.  

Seeber, James J., ed. Spiritual Maturity in the Later Years. New York: Haworth Press, 1990.    

Sullender, R. Scott. Losses in Later Life: A New Way of Walking With God. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1989.  

Vaillant, George E. Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development. New York: Little, Brown, 2002.  

Weaver, Andrew J., Harold G. Koenig, Phyllis C. Roe, eds. Reflections on Aging and Spiritual Growth. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.   

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