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Chronicling the evolution of David Gutmann's cross-cultural, empirical studies on which his developmental theories of aging are based, this volume reveals how descriptions of the developmental sequences (as they show themselves in older men and women) lead to identification of the psychological forces that drive these processes across the years. This book of new and previously published work first reports on the research that buttressed this more hopeful view of aging as a period of growth and then sets forth the broad, unifying ideas that came out of the empirical work. This is a text for gerontologists, for all students of human development, and for all thoughtful readers who are concerned with the great themes of the human life-cycle - including their own.

Like Dr. Zenner, I have carried out field research in the Galilean region of Israel, and like him have had to rely mainly on older respondents—in my case, exclusively Druze—for basic data. But where Dr. Zenner is an anthropologist with historical interests, I am a psychologist; as such, my thoughts on the kinds of materials that we both collected may provide a worthwhile complement to his. Faced with the fact that memories of Aqiili Agha continue to echo through the Galilee long after his death, the historical scholar asks, 'what manner of man engendered these accounts?' while the psychologist asks, 'why do these memories persist, and in what ways are these memories distorted by the same motives that keep them alive?'. Accordingly, Dr. Zenner uses his subjects as informants on an historic figure, Aqiili Agha, a person external to themselves. As a psychologist I use equivalent materials, from a similar respondent group, as
projective data.

Aufbauend auf der Vorausberechnung der Kirchenmitglieder, welche die Verfasser des vorliegenden Beitrags für die evangelische und katholische Kirche in Deutschland erstellt haben, wird für jede der 27 römisch-katholischen Diözesen und 20 evangelischen Landeskirchen die langfristige Entwicklung des Kirchensteueraufkommens bis zum Jahr 2060 projiziert. Das Kirchensteueraufkommen der beiden großen Kirchen liegt 2060 nominal um 2 Prozent höher als 2017. Dies entspricht einem Rückgang der Kirchensteuerkaufkraft von 49 Prozent. In fünf Szenarien wird der Einfluss von Änderungen steuerrechtlicher und ökonomischer Parameter sowie veränderter Mitgliederentwicklung auf die Ergebnisse vorgestellt und diskutiert.