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Disability and Spirituality
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-0279-1 (ISBN)
Disability and spirituality have traditionally been understood as two distinct spheres: disability is physical and thus belongs to health care professionals, while spirituality is religious and belongs to the church, synagogue, or mosque and their theologians, clergy, rabbis, and imams. This division leads to stunted theoretical understanding, limited collaboration, and segregated practices, all of which contribute to a lack of capacity to see people with disabilities as whole human beings and full members of a diverse human family.
Contesting the assumptions that separate disability and spirituality, William Gaventa argues for the integration of these two worlds. As Gaventa shows, the quest to understand disability inevitably leads from historical and scientific models into the world of spirituality - to the ways that values, attitudes, and beliefs shape our understanding of the meaning of disability. The reverse is also true. The path to understanding spirituality is a journey that leads to disability - to experiences of limitation and vulnerability, where the core questions of what it means to be human are often starkly and profoundly clear.
In Disability and Spirituality Gaventa constructs this whole and human path before turning to examine spirituality in the lives of those individuals with disabilities, their families and those providing care, their friends and extended relationships, and finally the communities to which we all belong. At each point Gaventa shows that disability and spirituality are part of one another from the very beginning of creation. Recovering wholeness encompasses their reunion - a cohesion that changes our vision and enables us to everyone as fully human.
Rev. Bill Gaventa is Chair of the National Collaborative on Faith and Disability and Director of the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. He is past Editor of the Journal of Disability and Religion and served as President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Disability and Spirituality: Each Leads to the Other
1. Naming and Defining Disability: A Brief History
2. Disability: From Definition, Diagnosis, and Assessment to Meaning
3. Spirituality: From Meaning to Disability
Part II. Spirituality in the Lives of Individuals with Disabilities
4. Spirituality in the Lives of Individuals with Disabilities
5. Spiritual Development and Formation: From Child to Adult
6. Spirituality and the Transition to Adulthood
7. Spirituality, Aging, and End of Life: A Paradox of Loss and Celebration
Part III. Spirituality and Families
8. Spirituality and Families: Beginnings and Journeys
9. Respite Care: A Sabbath for (and from) Caregivers: Part IV. Spirituality and Professionals
10. Integrating Spirituality in Professional Services and Roles
11. Spirituality, Care, and Commitment
Part V. All of Us: Friendships, Relationships, and Community
12. Gift and Call: Recovering the Spiritual Dimensions of Friendship
13. Relationships Are Not Easy: Challenging Behaviors, Positive Behavior Supports, and Spirituality
14. Spirituality, Diversity, and Community: Moving toward Belonging
Conclusion: Restoring Wholeness It Is about All of Us
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.04.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability |
Zusatzinfo | 1 black & white illustrations, 6 figures |
Verlagsort | Waco |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4813-0279-5 / 1481302795 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4813-0279-1 / 9781481302791 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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