THE SPIRITUALITY OF AGE
Book ID/图书代码： 06568015B84396
English Summary/英文概要： A compassionate guide for transforming aging into spiritual growth
• Engage with 25 key questions guiding you to mine previously untapped veins of inspiration and courage
• Find a constructive role for regret and fear and embrace the freedom to become more fully yourself
• Draw from both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and the latest research in psychological and religious theory to cultivate your spiritual potential
As we enter the years beyond midlife, our quest for an approach to aging takes on added urgency and becomes even more relevant in our daily lives. Empowering a new generation of seekers to view aging as a spiritual path, authors Robert Weber and Carol Orsborn reveal that it is by engaging with the difficult questions about loss, meaning, and mortality--questions we can no longer put off or ignore--that we continue to grow. In fact, the realization of our full spiritual potential comes about not by avoiding the challenges aging brings our way but by working through them.
Addressing head-on how to make the transition from fears about aging into a fuller, richer appreciation of the next phase of our lives, the authors guide you through 25 key questions that can help you embrace the shadow side of aging as well as the spiritual opportunities inherent in growing older. Sharing their stories and wisdom to both teach and demonstrate what it means to feel energized about the possibilities of your later years, they explore how to find a constructive role for regret, shame, and guilt, realize your value to society, and embrace the freedom of your later years to become more fully yourself.
Coming from Catholic Jesuit and Jewish backgrounds respectively, as well as drawing from the latest research in psychological and religious theory, Weber and Orsborn provide their own conversational and candid answers to the 25 key questions, supporting their insightful and compassionate guidance with anecdotes, inspirational readings, and spiritual exercises. By engaging deeply with both the shadow and light sides of aging, our spirits not only learn to cope--but also to soar.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本关于将衰老转化为精神成长的极富人情味的指南。
l25个问题帮助你挖掘灵感和勇气
l为遗憾和恐惧正名，帮助你获得自由，成为更真实的自己
总结东西方灵性传统及心理学、宗教理论的最新研究，帮助你挖掘灵性潜力
人到中年，对年龄的增长越来越重视。本书作者旨在帮助这些读者将年龄的增长视为灵性成长的道路。他们揭示出，只有直面丧失、意义、永生、遗憾、羞愧这样棘手的问题，才能持续成长。挖掘自身灵性潜力的方法不是规避而是勇敢克服衰老所带来的挑战。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：2015 Gold Nautilus award winners
“终于，出现了一本不将衰老视为问题或挑战的书了！它将衰老视为礼物和机会。随着年龄的增长，必定也会增加智慧。我非常欣赏这部作品，并将它推荐给正在探索生命丰富性的每位读者。”——Harvey G. Cox，哈佛大学神学研究教授，作家
“两位衰老方面的专家——一位女性和一位男性——写作了这部内容深刻的作品。他们认为衰老是一场灵性的体验……经历跨信仰传统的读者和现实主义者一定会喜欢这本引人入胜、大开眼界的作品。”——Wade Clark Roof，加州大学宗教及社会学荣誉教授
“At last, a book about aging that does not envision it as a problem to be solved or even as a challenge to be overcome! It greets growing older, as a gift and an opportunity. With age comes at least a little wisdom, and that wisdom is relevant for people in any age cohort. I savored this fine volume and commend it to anyone still searching, as I hope we all are, for the fullness of life.” (Harvey G. Cox, Hollis research professor of divinity, Harvard University, and author of The Future o)
“Are you a Boomer on a white-knuckled ride trying to shift into reverse on aging? We all try. This knowing book will relax your grip. The authors illuminate the path of spiritual growth, leading us to come to terms with where we have failed and to make the passage to what really matters. Beautifully written, both from deep research and even deeper personal experience by the authors, a former Jesuit and a Jewish woman. Best book I have ever read on this most significant passage.” (Gail Sheehy, author of Daring: My Passages)
“An in-depth look within by two specialists on aging, a woman and a man, aging Boomers themselves. It portrays aging as a spiritual experience, and unlike many current commentaries about people turning away from religion--particularly those who say ‘I’m spiritual but not religious’--they turn that phrase on its head. People across faith traditions as well as secularists will find the book engaging and eye-opening.” (Wade Clark Roof, J.F. Rowny professor of religion and society emeritus, University of California at)
About the Author/作者介绍： Robert L. Weber博士，哈佛医学院心理系助理教授。美国老龄协会2014年宗教、灵性、老龄奖得主。目前和妻子住在马萨诸塞州的剑桥。
Carol Orsborn博士，《Fierce with Age: The Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality》的创始人、主编。著有20多部有关婴儿潮一代的著作，并在Huffington Post，PBS’s NextAvenue.net和 BeliefNet.com等开设了受欢迎的博客。现在与丈夫居住在田纳西州的麦迪逊。
Robert L. Weber, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and a former Jesuit. Recipient of the American Society on Aging’s 2014 Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Award, he is an advisory board member for the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology’s Center for Psychotherapy and Spirituality. He lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Carol Orsborn, Ph.D., is founder and editor-in-chief of Fierce with Age: The Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality. The author of more than 20 books for and about the Boomer generation as well as popular blogs on Huffington Post, PBS’s NextAvenue.net, and BeliefNet.com, she has served on the faculties of Georgetown University, Loyola Marymount University, and Pepperdine University. She lives with her husband in Madison, Tennessee.
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