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For Gentile, the Enlightenment in the person of Rousseau, following on the division and weakening of Christianity, realized that even agnosticism or atheist humanism needed heroes, myths, symbols, and rituals in order to hold the minds and especially the hearts of the people. Gentile's analysis of totalitarianism as a 'political religion' as opposed to a 'civil religion' shows how these regimes attempted to offer the populace the Kingdom of Heaven on earth while eliminating God, or replacing God with the mythic charismatic leader.

The purpose of this study: First, to analyze and evaluate the Physical Education Program at Prairie View University; second, to formulate a standard for judging this type of program; and third, to recommend a workable program for Prairie View. It is the writer's hope that the formulation will be helpful as a guide for organizing programs and departments now rendering only limited service. The evaluation will attempt to show the favorable and unfavorable conditions, offering suggested revisions so that available facilities for the latter will better serve pupils who probably are being denied privileges to which they are entitled. Contrary to what may be the first impression on reading the title of the study, research has been unduly handicapped by lack of a rich primary source of material. This lack, a challenge in itself, has limited the writer to meager findings, but it has been found that the program at Prairie View has been of a peculiar sort in its origin and development which follows a similar pattern of the origin and development of physical education in the United States. The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation is the result of a merger of the American Physical Education Association and the Department of School Health and Physical Education of the National Education Association in 1939. The Department of School Health and Physical Education had its beginning as the Department of Child Study. The name of the American Association was changed to American Physical Education Association. The association publishes The Journal of Health and Physical Education and The Research Quarterly.1 Youth, in the American Democracy today, face a world shaken and torn by the chaotic aftermath of a great world conflict. Education alone stands solid in the face of mounting odds from economic and social confusion. Personal and human shortages are to be dealt with as well as economic and social shortcomings. Our common joys and communities furnish a source for health, physical education and recreation helping them to play a greater part in our lives. In this study the writer tries not only to show the favorable conditions that exist but attempts to relate constructive suggestions from time to time as a result of his findings. The need of a new and revised program is evident. Ever changing conditions demand a flexible program that will cope with any situation that may arise. The sudden change of Prairie View College to a University created a bigger strain on the Physical Education Department. This department had many problems in serving the college. Now it finds that it must raise itself to a University level. 1. The National Education Association, Addresses and Proceedings, (Indianapolis, 1943, vol. 81,) pp. 83-84.

This study examines the influence of transportation dependence and fulfillment of transportation needs on well-being based on a community sample ( N = 174). The majority (54.4%) of transportation-dependent participants had unfulfilled transportation needs, whereas this was the case for very few (7.1%) of those independent of transportation support. Regression analyses revealed that the transportation needs variable was statistically significant, whereas the transportation dependence factor was not. In terms of the prioritization of environmental components, elderly dependent on transportation support placed higher importance on housing than on neighborhood or community elements compared to more mobile seniors. Participants with unmet transportation needs were more likely to depend solely on family to provide transportation, whereas participants with fulfilled transportation needs were more likely to include friends or neighbors for providing transportation support. Results suggest that prioritization of needs enables seniors to maintain positive wellbeing despite experiencing functional limitations or being dependent on transportation services.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Perspectives of Resilience and Aging -- Chapter 2: Resilience in Older Adults: What it is and How to Strengthen It -- Chapter 3: Resilience in Later life: Responding to Criticisms and Applying New Knowledge to the Experience of Dementia -- Chapter 4: Science and Practice of Resilience: Disaster Systems Applications to Aging Model Development -- Chapter 5: Multimorbidity Resilience: Conceptual, Theoretical and Measurement Developments -- Chapter 6: Quantitative Approaches to Examine Resilience and Aging -- Chapter 7: Positive Affect as Source of Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life -- Chapter 8: Psychological Resilience in the Face of Later-Life Bereavement -- Chapter 9: Physical Resilience and Aging -- Chapter 10: Mobility Resilience Processes Among Older Adults -- Chapter 11: Communities and Resilience: Contextual and Collective Resilience -- Chapter 12: Advancing the Concept of Resilience for Older Adults who are Experiencing Homelessness.

"Now in its seventh edition, Aging as a Social Process continues to show students that human aging is more than just a matter of biology-it is also a complex social process. Drawing on a wide variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and with a multidisciplinary approach, Aging as a Social Process sheds light on the individual and societal dimensions of aging. The seventh edition features data from the 2016 Census, the latest research in the field, and increased coverage of aging and mental health, marginalization, technology, and intersectionality. Aging as a Social Process offers students a thoroughly up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the sociological study of aging in Canada."--

Aging is commonly associated with an increase in chronic disease and disability, affecting access to transportation. This study examines factors that contribute to the decision to use Handy Dart transportation (a handicap-specialized service) among 869 elderly, chronically ill residents of a metropolitan region in British Columbia. Drawing on Chappell's complementary model of support, the authors hypothesized that informal social support will be positively associated with specialized transportation service use. The authors employ the Andersen-Newman model of health use to help organize the other expected predictors. Results of logistic regression analysis revealed that the presence of regular social support, a positive attitude about Handy Dart helpfulness, being retired, disability because of arthritis, and perceived ill health were the strongest predictors of use. Age, gender, marital status, knowledge, and number of comorbid illnesses did not predict use of the service. The results are discussed within the context of changing needs for specialized transportation services.