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Abstract
The field of research in religion and spirituality within aging is expanding and there is need for much more knowledge integration. At the same time, it is valuable to acknowledge some unique aspects to inquiry in this area. Researcher considerations include awareness of cultural biases, limitations in all methods of research, the influence of religious traditions and external environments that favor or marginalize this research, and the danger of reductionism through definitional limits. Spirituality particularly is difficult to trimly capture in categories. Thus, holding open the possibility of intuitive insight for greater knowledge and maintaining a goal of compassionate understanding can help us end our journey at the beginning point of our exploration and know it in a way that is rich and deep, as if seeing it for the first time.