TY - BOOK ID - 17086598 TI - In the course of a lifetime : tracing religious belief, practice, and change. AU - Dillon, Michele AU - Wink, Paul PY - 2007 SN - 9780520249004 0520249003 9780520249011 0520249011 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Faith development. KW - United States KW - Religion. KW - Foi KW - DeĢveloppement KW - Etats-Unis KW - Religion KW - Faith development KW - 27 <73> KW - 316:2 <73> KW - Development of faith KW - Faith, Stages of KW - Religious development KW - Stages of faith KW - Christian education KW - Psychology, Religious KW - Moral development KW - 316:2 <73> Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Godsdienstsociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - United States - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17086598 AB - 'In the Course of a Lifetime ' provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. The book draws from a unique sixty-year-long study of close to two hundred Protestant and Catholic men and women who were born in the 1920s and interviewed in adolescence, and again in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s. Woven throughout with rich and intimate life stories, the book presents and analyzes a wide range of data from this study on the participants' religious and spiritual journeys. Michele Dillon and Paul Wink explore how such factors as early life experiences, personality traits, marriage and parenthood, mid-life, retirement, and adversity influenced the participants' religious engagement. In turn, they ask how religion and spirituality relate to well-being, community participation, political attitudes, health, depression, life satisfaction, and the fear of death. A testament to the vibrancy of religion in the United States, 'In the Course of a Lifetime' provides an illuminating and sometimes surprising perspective on how individual lives have intersected with cultural change throughout the decades of the twentieth-century. ER -