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Spirituality and Ageing
EditedbyAlbertJewell
ISBN185302631X
The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing
ElizabethMacKinlay
ISBN1843100088
Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia
OpportunitiesandObstacles
MalcolmGoldsmith
ISBN1853024066
Spiritual Caregiving as Secular Sacrament
APracticalTheologyforProfessionalCaregivers
RayS.Anderson
ISBN1843107465
In Living Color
AnInterculturalApproachtoPastoralCareandCounseling
SecondEdition
EmmanuelY.Lartey
ISBN1843107503
A Guide to the Spiritual Dimension of Care for People
with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
MorethanBody,BrainandBreath
EileenShamy
ISBN1843101297
Spirituality in Health Care Contexts
EditedbyHelenOrchard
ISBN1853029696
Spirituality, Healing and Medicine
ReturntotheSilence
DavidAldridge
ISBN1853025542
Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care
PracticalTheologyinaMultidisciplinaryContext
EditedbyDavidWillowsandJohnSwinton
ISBN1853028924
Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being
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Contents
PREFACE
Albert Jewell, former Pastoral Director, MHA Care Group, Derby 7
1. Nourishing the Inner Being: A Spirituality Model 11
Albert Jewell
2. The Stars Only Shine in the Night:
The Challenge of Creative Ageing 27
Malcolm Goldsmith, former Research Fellow, University of Stirling
3. Successful Ageing and the Spiritual Journey 42
Harriet Mowat, Aberdeen University
4. The Caged Bird: Thoughts on the Challenge 58
of Living with Stroke
Penelope Wilcock, Methodist Minister
5. The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing 72
Elizabeth MacKinlay, University of Canberra
6. Ageing and the Trinity: Holey, Wholly, Holy? 86
Rosalie Hudson, University of Melbourne
7. Older People and Institutionalised Religion: 101
Spiritual Questioning in Later Life
Peter G. Coleman, University of Southampton
8. The Search for Meaning of Life in Older Age 113
Leo Missinne, University of Nebraska
9. The Dance of Life: Spirituality, Ageing 124
and Human Flourishing
Ursula King, Professor Emerita, University of Bristol
10. Magic Mirrors: What People with Dementia 143
Show Us about Ourselves
John Killick, University of Stirling
11. Hearing the Story: Spiritual Challenges 153
for the Ageing in an Acute Mental Health Unit
Deborah Dunn, Chaplain, Western Australia
12. Eastern Perspectives and Implications for the West 161
Krishna Mohan, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
13. Ageist Theology: Some Pickwickian Prolegomena 180
Kevin Barnard, Vicar of Bolsterstone, Diocese of Sheffield
14. Geriatric Burden or Elderly Blessing? 197
David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham
REFERENCES 203
THECONTRIBUTORS 217
SUBJECTINDEX 219
AUTHORINDEX 223
Preface
Albert Jewell
HavingeditedSpiritualityandAgeing(1999),Icountitaprivilegetoactin
the same capacity for this publication. The provenance however is
different. The first book arose out of the Sir Halley Stewart project of
which I was the administrator. The purpose of that project was to raise
awarenessofthespiritualneedsofolderpeopleandencourageinterestin
the spirituality of ageing in the church and the wider community in the
UK.Somefouryearslateragreatdealhasbeenachievedtowardsthatend.
Further publications have burgeoned. Ageing is seen as a very important
social issue and spirituality is on the agenda of many more people than
those who attend church, synagogue, mosque or temple.
ThepresentbookaroseoutoftheSecondInternationalConferenceon
Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being held at Durham University in July
2002.ThefirstsuchconferencewasheldinCanberrain2000andtheUK
delegates representing the Christian Council on Ageing (CCOA) were
asked to make arrangements for the 2002 conference. MHA Care Group
(formerlyknownasMethodistHomesfortheAged),whichIservedfirstas
PastoralDirectorandthenasSeniorChaplain,wereinvitedtoco-sponsor
the event along with CCOA and provide the necessary administrative
back-up.Thistheydidlargelythankstothededicatedworkof MrsLynn
Fox,whoactedasmyPAuntilmyretirementin2001andwhonowserves
inthesamecapacityformysuccessor,RevDrKeithAlbans,whohimself
worked tirelessly behind the scenes at Durham.
Some200peopleattendedtheconferenceandweretreatedtokeynote
addresses,papersandworkshopsofaveryhighquality.Thisbookbrings
togetheralloftheplenaryaddresses,rewrittenforpublication,plusaselec-
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tion of the other papers, though sadly the workshops do not lend
themselves easily to such reproduction.
InChapter5ElizabethMacKinlayhascompressedthematerialwhich
canbereadinfullinherbookTheSpiritualDimensionofAgeing(2001a)and
has updated it.
EarlierversionsofChapter8byLeoMissinnepreviouslyappearedin
Quarterly Papers on Religion, vol. 1, no. 5, published by St Paul School of
Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, and in Spiritual Well-being of the Elderly
(edsJ.A.ThorsonandT.C.Cook)(1980),publishedbyC.C.Thomasof
Springfield,Illinois.Wearegratefultothecollegeandtothepublishersfor
permission to reproduce here.
DrKrishnaMohanwishestoplaceonrecordhissincerethankstoDr
DaphneWallace,chairoftheCCOADementiaGroup,forherhelpinpre-
paring his chapter for publication.
In some ways the book that has now been produced provides even
richer fare than the original event. Two main speakers were hospitalised
andhadtodropoutoftheconferencelateintheday.RevMalcolmGold-
smith,whohadsoexcitedtheCanberraconference,haskindlywrittenup
whathewouldhavesaidinhisaddressundertheevocativetitle‘TheStars
OnlyShineintheNight’.ProfessorJohnHullofBirminghamUniversity
wouldhavespokenabouthisexperienceofblindness.Inplaceofthis,and
because the physical aspects of ageing ought not to be ignored, I asked
Penelope Wilcock, a contributor to Spirituality and Ageing, if she would
writeChapter4aboutthechallengeof stroke.Thisshehasdonetogreat
effect.
I have also written an introductory chapter that provides fuller infor-
mation about MHA Care Group and CCOA, looks at some of the
definitionsofspiritualityofferedbytheotherwritersandsuggestsapossi-
ble model.
WeinvitedtheRtRevdDrDavidJenkins,formerProfessorofTheol-
ogyintheUniversityof LeedsandBishopof Durhamfrom1984–1994,
tokeepawatchingbriefattheconferenceandinthefinalkeynoteaddress
tosharewithushisreflections.Hehasnowrewrittentheseas‘reflections
onreflections’,inamoststimulatingandprovocative‘endpiece’(Chapter
14). Readers of the earlier chapters will have to decide how fair he has
been in his critique, but he certainly makes a trenchant case.
PREFACE 9
What no book can do, of course, is to replicate the debates that the
addressesandpapersgenerateataconferenceandthegeneral‘buzz’ofso
many people from many different disciplines and the churches getting
together. I trust nonetheless that what is written will be seen as a worthy
contributiontotheongoingdiscussionaboutthepartplayedbyspiritual-
ity in the well-being of older people.
