Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeThis collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities. |
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The loss of intellectual functions such as thinking, remembering, and reasoning takes on a particularly negative set of meanings within liberal culture. Personhood is defined precisely by those aspects ...
Post-Enlightenment Western culture is liberal in its worldview, assumptions, and expectations. Liberalism emphasizes the importance of reason, rationality, independence and the capacity for self-advocacy.
Intellectual disability, by its nature, puts people outside the ambit of the dominant values of our culture; values of competence, efficiency, productivity, physical beauty; all that stems from the power of the intelligence and the myth ...
His reading of the Gospel convinced him that the message of Jesus calls his followers to become friends with those on the margins of the dominant culture. Choosing to be a friend with a person who has been rejected or marginalized ...
The Beatitudes articulate a vision of God for humankind; they challenge us to find meaning in those aspects of human experience which the dominant culture devalues or seeks to deny. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...the gentle, ...
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Table des matières
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A Narrative of Ageing
Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Ethical
and Theological Issues for
Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability
and Spirituality | 94 |
The Interplay of Faith
and Depression in Later Life | 163 |
The Potential for Choir Work
to Reduce Depression and
Meet Spiritual Needs | 182 |
Chapter
15
Humour and Its Link to Meaning
and Spirituality in War | 200 |
Chapter
16
Pastoral Rituals Ageing and
New Paths into Meaning | 217 |
The Possibilities for
Wellbeing and Care | 233 |
REFERENCES
| 240 |
CONTRIBUTORS
| 258 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 263 |
Jacobs
Wrestling with the Unknown
Genesis 32 | 106 |
Addressing the Challenge of
Dementia in Later Life | 118 |
A Journey Inwards
to a Spiritual Self | 134 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a
Theology of Pastoral Care
for the Ageing and Persons
with Disabilities | 145 |
AUTHOR INDEX
| 269 |
back cover | 273 |