Spirituality and Intellectual Disability : International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind, and Soul

by Gaventa, William C., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780789016850
• ISBN10: 0789016850
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317788119
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
I. HEALING MIND, BODY, AND SOUL: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDINGS OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
Recognition of Spirituality in Health Care: Personal and Universal Implications	1	(12)
David L. Coulter
Authenticity in Community: Theory and Practice of an Inclusive Anthropology in Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities	13	(16)
Herman P. Meininger
Defining and Assessing Spirituality and Spiritual Supports: A Rationale for Inclusion in Theory and Practice	29	(20)
William C. Gaventa, Jr.
II. SPIRITUALITY AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AROUND THE WORLD: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON HEALING MIND, BODY, AND SOUL
Judaism and the Person with Intellectual Disability	49	(16)
Joav Merrick
Yehuda Gabbay
Hefziba Lifshitz
Islam and the Person with Intellectual Disability	65	(8)
Mohammed Morad
Yusuf Nasri
Joav Merrick
Disabled Women in Islam: Middle Eastern Perspective	73	(14)
Majid Turmusani
Cultural/Spiritual Attributions as Independent Variables in the Development of Identity and Potential for Persons of Exceptionality: A Case Study of North American Christianity and Native American Religious Influence	87	(12)
Candace Cole-McCrea
Open Wide the Doors to Christ: Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and the Roman Catholic Church	99	(14)
Kathy J. Smalley
III. BRINGING SCIENCE INTO SPIRITUALITY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Spiritual Health and Persons with Intellectual Disability: A Review	113	(10)
Joav Merrick
Mohammed Morad
Udi Levy
Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols	123	(18)
Varda Carmeli
Eli Carmeli
IV. FROM THEORY AND THEOLOGY TO PRACTICE: CREATIVE WAYS OF FACILITATING SPIRITUAL HEALTH
Liturgical Celebration with People with a Severe Mental Disability: Giving the Gospel Hands and Feet	141	(6)
Anja Vogelzang
The Benefits of Jewish Mourning Rituals for the Grieving Individual with Intellectual Disabilities	147	(10)
Shlomo Kessel
Joav Merrick
Bridge Ministries for Disability Concerns: A Community Ministry Model	157	(16)
Mary Galvin
Index	173