How Religion Comforts the Dying

A Qualitative Inquiry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13628853
AutoresCarolyn F Pevey (Auburn University at Montgomery), Carolyn Pevey (Auburn University at Montgomery, autor correspondente), Thomas J Jones (0000-0003-4981-5131, Montgomery, Alabama), Annice D Yarber (Auburn University at Montgomery), Annice Yarber (Auburn University at Montgomery)
Ano2008
Volume58
Fascículo1
Páginas41-59
Data de publicação2008-11-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.58.1.c
PMID19112874
OpenAlexW2043425853
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas34

Although considerable social science research has explored religiosity and death anxiety, and many have theorized that religion comforts the dying, with speculations on the mechanisms by which religion comforts, very little research has asked people who were actually dying to discuss religion. This article reports on answers given by 38 hospice patients to the questions: Is religion a comfort to you? How does religion comfort you? This study found that religion, when it comforted these dying people, did so by offering a relationship to the dying, by giving the hope of life after death, through identifications, and through the assurance of cosmic order. The authors suggest theoretical perspectives accounting for these functions

Aesthetics · Anxiety · Death anxiety · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Religiosity · Social science · Sociology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology