The Living Spirit Of The Crone: Turning Aging Inside Out (Theology And The Sciences)

The Story

Sally Thomason rescues the sacred status and wisdom of aging from a culture that fears, avoids, denies, degrades, and demeans people as they age. In this passionate and insightful look at aging, especially of women, she traces our culture's cult of youth and its distorted views of aging to modern science, modern medicine, and modern merchandising, which largely treat aging as a pathology rather than as a natural progression and opportunity for deeper, fuller living. Using personal experiences and stories from dozens of women she interviewed, Thomason proposes 'aging from the inside out,' creatively embracing aging's spiritual, relational, and physical renewal and the living spirit of the crone. Book jacket.