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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Alan Niven provides an important chapter that offers a way of understanding the role of ritual in pastoral care. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Ageing, Disability and Spirituality Elizabeth MacKinlay It 10 / AGEING, DISABILITY AND ...
Further, he asks whether this is a legitimate role, or whether people with disabilities should be seen only in the role of disability that defines them. People with severe disabilities challenge those of us with the types of ...
Some twenty years later I found myself returning to that same ward, in a new role as a hospital chaplain. Much had changed. The attitudes and routines were considerably less rigid, more compassionate and thoughtful.
The increasing polarization between the West and Islam also indicates that religion, political ideology, and the role of reason in the human enterprise will progressively influence our thinking in the decades ahead.
This points to the second key notion, namely the role that friendship has in human living. The gift of self and the response of another in friendship far exceed the liberal focus on the autonomous individual. Friendship is possible no ...
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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 |