RT Article
T1 Religion and fear of death among older Dutch adults
JF Journal of religion, spirituality & aging
VO 31
IS 3
SP 236
OP 254
A1 Fortuin, Nienke P. M.
A2 Schilderman, Johannes B. A. M.
A2 Venbrux, Eric 1960-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1670207897
AB A qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch participants was performed to elucidate the complex relationship between religion and death anxiety. Whereas participants expressed seven types of lived religion (lacking, lost, liminal, loose, learned, lasting, and liquid religion), only participants with loose or lost religion expressed death anxiety. This supports previous research indicating that moderately religious people fear death more than nonbelievers or highly religious people. Moreover, the naturalness of death, the length of their life span, the death of others, the goodness of life, and the hope to live on in others also provided acceptance of death.
K1 afterlife beliefs
K1 Death
K1 Death Anxiety
K1 Lived Religion
K1 Older Adults
DO 10.1080/15528030.2018.1446068