Religion and aging in Indian tradition : a textual study
The purpose of the present study is to recover from selected Hindu and Buddhist texts ideas and images of aging and illumine their historical, semantic and metaphysical dimensions. The results of this endeavor indicate that as cultural adaptive systems, both religion and gerontology share a common c...
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Language: | en |
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McGill University
1988
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Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75680 |