{"id":1394,"date":"2017-06-06T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-understandingunbelief\/?page_id=1394"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:47:13","slug":"manning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/research-projects-2\/manning\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning making narratives among non-religious individuals facing the end of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"breadcrumb \"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/\" rel=\"index\">Home<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/\">Research<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/research-projects-2\/\" rel=\"up\">Research Projects<\/a><\/nav>\n<div id=\"attachment_2330\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2330\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2330\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1816\/2017\/06\/Manning_Christel_photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christel Manning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Project team:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>Dr Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University, USA (Principal Investigator)<\/div>\n<div>Dr Vern Bengston, University of Southern California, USA (Consultant)<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<div>Dates: 1 July 2017- 30 June 2019<br \/>\nAward: \u00a323,533.60<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>This project will explore the meaning-making narratives of non-religious Americans, both white and black, who are facing the end of life. Using a qualitative methodology, investigation will focus on two main research questions. The first pertains to content. What kinds of stories do non-religious individuals tell to make sense of death and dying? What general narrative patterns exist (in themes or structure), and what interpretive patterns exist as individuals apply a more general narrative to their own particular situation? The second research question is comparative. What are the similarities and\/or differences between (1) non-religious individuals generally and religious individuals; (2) various types of non-religious individuals (atheist\/humanist; spiritual\/agnostic; indifferent); and (3) white Americans (who are over represented among the nonreligious) and African Americans (a group that is much less likely to be non-religious)?<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div>The project will proceed in two phases. Phase 1 will be a pilot study of 30 elders (individuals over 75) that will include both non-religious and religious respondents for comparison. The purpose of the pilot is to test both the screening and interview instruments and improve these as needed. Phase 2 will be a larger study of 100 additional respondents focusing specifically on non-religious individuals. Phase 1 will be conducted at the Mary Wade Home (MHW), a facility providing assisted living and off-site elder services in New Haven, CT. Phase 2 will begin at MWH but will extend to additional facilities across the greater Connecticut and New York area.<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HomeResearchResearch Projects &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Project team: Dr Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University, USA (Principal Investigator) Dr Vern Bengston, University of Southern California, USA (Consultant) Dates: 1 July 2017- 30 June 2019 Award: \u00a323,533.60 This project will explore the meaning-making narratives of non-religious Americans, both white and black, who are facing the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"parent":1250,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1394\/revisions\/6577"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}