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Religiousness, spirituality, and existential beliefs are important sources of well-being yet neither their specific effects nor group variation in them is well understood. In a sample of more than 1,000 older adults, we found that certain existential beliefs or concerns (fear of God, death anxiety, belief in life after death, concerns about being mourned) are correlates of well-being in older adults and differed across religious groups. Protestants reported better well-being than Catholics and Jews. Differences in social satisfaction and existential concerns partially explained these differences, which were not explained by demographics. These results suggest the importance of studying well-being and religion in a way that appreciates the differences among religious groups and further of looking at the specific beliefs of different groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is result of the one a sequence of interviews achieved with the master ambassador Antonio Francisco, of the Companhia de Reis Santa Luzia, thus as the work of the participant observation of the journey of Kings 2007/ 2008 how achieved close the Company in the district of a city the municipality of Londrina/ PR. Have for objective to sight in the paper something's elements how defined the popular Catholicism traditional Brazilian, in your expression cultural, configured across of this perspective the formation of yours rituals-masters and the structure ritualistic and organizational the journey of Kings of this cultural universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]