Spirituality and Intellectual Disability

International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind, and Soul

William C Gaventa, David Coulter

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317788119
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Teoría, práctica y referencia médicas

Learn about inclusive religious practices from around the world! With a multidisciplinary and anthropological perspective, Spirituality and Intellectual Disability: International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind, and Soul takes a fresh, innovative look into the world of religious and spiritual practices for the intellectually disabled. Containing vital insights from the first strand on spiritualit and disability at the quadrennial conference of the International Association for Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (Seattle, 2000), this book provides a framework for bridging the gap between science and faith. It explores the ways in which faith traditions, cultural backgrounds, and professional roles can help bring about a consensus about what spiritual health means within specific cultures and faiths and across disciplines. This informative book examines and provides cutting-edge information on:

• recognition of spirituality in health care
• defining and assessing spirituality and spiritual supports
• perspectives on intellectual disability from Judiasm, Islam, Roman Catholicism, and Native American spirituality
• creative models of community ministry and religious education
• liturgical celebrations with people who have severe mental disabilities

Index

AAMR (American Association on Mental Retardation), 7, 29–34,39–42,45

Abrahamsen, E.P., 124,138

Adams, J.A., 133,138

Ali, A., 84

American Association on Mental Retardation. See AAMR (American Association on Mental Retardation)

Anwar, A., 67,70–71

Armstrong, K., 114,120

Assessments

holistic vs. spiritual, 34

vs. spiritual supports, 42–44

Attitude vs. imaginative anticipation, 25–26

Augustine (Saint), 18–19

Authenticity in community

inclusive anthropology and attitude vs. imaginative anticipation, 25–26

practical-ethical implications of, 23–26

search for, 20–23

skills vs. hermeneutical competence, 24–25

spiritual supports and, 29–49.

See also Supports (spiritual)

virtue vs. subtlety, 26

individual autonomy and alternatives to, 18–20

dominance of, 16–18

introduction to, xiii–xviii,13–14

philosophical anthropology, relevance of, 14–16

reference literature about, 26–28

Babylonian Talmud, 49–63

Barry, C, 33,37,48

Basil of Cesarea (Cappodaocian Father), 21

Beadle-Brown, J., 124,138

Bearon, L.B., 121

Becker, C, 120

Begum, N., 76,84

Beizer, L., 121

Bereavement rituals (Jewish). See Mourning rituals (Jewish)

Bergant, D., 102,111

Berger, P.L., 97

Berkowitz, S.F., 124,139

Bernheimer, L., 47

Berrigan, D., 5,11

Biblical references, 8,42–43,53–57, 100–104

Blazer, D.G., 121

Bleidick, U., 14,24,26

Blind persons, 55

Bondy,A., 124,138

Bonvillian, R.D., 133,138

Braum, E.M., 97

Bridg...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• I. Healing Mind, Body, and Soul: Theoretical Foundations for Understandings of Spiritual Health for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
• II. Spirituality and Intellectual Disability Around the World: Cultural and Religious Perspectives on Healing Mind, Body, and Soul
• III. Bringing Science into Spirituality.: Research and Practice
• IV. From Theory and Theology to Practice: Creative Ways of Facilitating Spiritual Health
• Index