1st Edition
Spirituality and Intellectual Disability International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
- Foreword
- Preface
- 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
- Authenticity in Community: Theory and Practice of an Inclusive Anthropology in Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
- Defining and Assessing Spirituality and Spiritual Supports: A Rational for Inclusion in Theory and Practice
- 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
- Islam and the Person with Intellectual Disability
- Disabled Women in Islam: Middle Eastern Perspective
- 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
- Open Wide the Doors to Christ: Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and the Roman Catholic Church
- III. Bringing Science Into Spirituality: Research and Practice
- Spiritual Health and Persons with Intellectual Disability: A Review
- Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols
- 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
- The Benefits of Jewish Mourning Rituals for the Grieving Individual with Intellectual Disabilities
- Bridge Ministries for Disability Concerns: A Community Ministry Model
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Gaventa, William C; Coulter, David
