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Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America » Read Now
by Marc Freedman. 292 pgs.

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Marc Freedman casts the ageing of America in a positive light, identifying it not as a problem but as an opportunity to be seized, provided we can learn to engage the experience and talent of older adults.
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Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion » Read Now
by Wade Clark Roof. 367 pgs.

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In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade...
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In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative approaches. But what does this splintering of the religious perspective say about Americans? Have we become more interested in spiritual concerns or have we become lost among trends? Do we value personal spirituality over traditional religion and no longer see ourselves united in a larger community of faith? Roof first credited this religious diversity to the baby boomers in his bestselling "A Generation of Seekers (1993). He returns to interview many of these people, now in mid-life, to reveal a generation with a unique set of spiritual values--a generation that has altered our historic interpretations of religious beliefs, practices, and symbols, and perhaps even our understanding of the sacred i
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Family Behaviors Among Early U.S. Baby Boomers: Exploring the Effects of Religion and Income Change, 1965-1982, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Timothy T. Clydesdale. 31 pgs.

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...Family Behaviors among Early U.S. Baby Boomers: Exploring the Effects of Religion...1965-82 panel study of early U.S. baby boomers, analyses revealed that (1) while...and...
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The Master Trend: How the Baby Boom Generation Is Remaking America » Read Now
by Cheryl Russell. 274 pgs.

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...itself. The attitudes and values of baby boomers are profoundly different from...thirty years ago when the oldest baby boomers began to come of age. That is why our lives...
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The Maturing Marketplace: Buying Habits of Baby Boomers and Their Parents » Read Now
by George P. Moschis, Euehun Lee, Anil Mathur, Jennifer Strautman. 303 pgs.

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The buying habits of baby boomers really do differ from those of their parents. The authors show how marketers can use each group's consumption patterns to reach both markets most effectively. Another insight: buying habits of these groups differ according to the product or service offered. By...
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The buying habits of baby boomers really do differ from those of their parents. The authors show how marketers can use each group's consumption patterns to reach both markets most effectively. Another insight: buying habits of these groups differ according to the product or service offered. By analyzing each cohort's buying habits in various purchasing situations, the book dramatizes the need for customized marketing strategies. Based on two national surveys conducted by the Center for Mature Studies, Georgia State University, the book will be essential for marketing professionals and their academic colleagues.
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Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers » Read Now
by Dean R. Hoge, Benton Johnson, Donald A. Luidens. 254 pgs.

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This in-depth survey provides a vivid overview of the religious world of the Baby Boomers. The authors examine their religious faith and explores the reasons they give for leaving or staying in the church. Their findings provide some unexpected results.
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Counterculture or Continuity? Competing Influences on Baby Boomers' Religious Orientations and Participation, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Darren E. Sherkat. 28 pgs.

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...Continuity? Competing Influences on Baby Boomers Religious Orientations and Participation...orientations to young, educated, baby boomers led many scholars to proclaim...
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective » Read Now
by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 256 pgs.

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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to...
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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.
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The "Big Chill" Generation Warms to Worship: A Research Note, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by David A. Roozen, William McKinney. 9 pgs.

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...predicting a "great reversal" once the baby boomers came of age and settled into more...analysis distinguishes between "older baby boomers" (those born from 1945 to 1954)...
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The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives » Read Now
by Wade Clark Roof, Jackson W. Carroll, David A. Roozen. 292 pgs.

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...Eileen Barker 1 2 Baby Boomers Downunder: The Case of Australia...Context Given that the concept "baby boomers" is sometimes used interchangeably...generation referred to...
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Much Ado About Nothing? Demographic Bulges, the Productivity Puzzle, and CPP Reform, in Contemporary Economic Policy » Read Now
by J. C. Herbert Emery, Ian Rongve. 11 pgs.

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...and passed onto the lower income baby boomers. ( JEL H55, J18, J10) 1...wages of workers trailing the baby boomers do not increase. However, if real...describes the tragedy...
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Justice between Generations: The Growing Power of the Elderly in America » Read Now
by Matthew C. Price. 174 pgs.

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With the transformation of the elderly into a major political force in American politics, older Americans have used their increasing numbers and political power to capture a growing and disproportionate share of public resources. This book explores their emergence from obscurity to political...
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With the transformation of the elderly into a major political force in American politics, older Americans have used their increasing numbers and political power to capture a growing and disproportionate share of public resources. This book explores their emergence from obscurity to political preeminence and considers the effect of their power on other members of society. It traces the shift in public attitude from the 18th century to the early 20th century, when the elderly population increased and needed an economic safety net. It then focuses on the elderly's growing power in the late 20th century and examines how they are receiving an expanding share of the budget for such programs as Social Security and Medicare at the expense of such groups as children in poverty.
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Demography and Retirement: The Twenty-First Century » Read Now
by Anna M. Rappaport, Sylvester J. Schieber. 334 pgs.

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This contributed volume provides a broad-based and in-depth exploration of demographic and related issues facing American society as it anticipates the retirement of the so-called "baby boomers." The work provides a critical examination of the population and labor force projections most commonly...
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This contributed volume provides a broad-based and in-depth exploration of demographic and related issues facing American society as it anticipates the retirement of the so-called "baby boomers." The work provides a critical examination of the population and labor force projections most commonly used in discussions of retirement in the next century; looks at issues relating to the health and age structure of the population, examining those issues in the context of support mechanisms for retirement income security; and considers the potential lessons to be learned from the experiences of other industrialized societies in dealing with an aging population.
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Americans at Midlife: Caught Between Generations » Read Now
by Rosalie G. Genovese. 142 pgs.

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Americans at Midlife is an exploration of the middle years within the framework of trends in the larger society, including longer life expectancy and an aging population; changes in marriage, divorce, and family composition; increased participation of women in the labor force; and the growth of two-income families.
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100 Predictions for the Baby Boom: The Next 50 Years » Read Now
by Cheryl Russell. 249 pgs.

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...Baby-Boom Labor Force ... 62 What Baby Boomers Do .... 64 What Baby Boomers Will Earn .. 66 Women Breadwinners...PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE FAMILY Nine out of ten baby boomers...