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The Disabled Church - Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship (Paperback)
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The Disabled Church - Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship (Paperback)
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How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and
create the space and time necessary for the differences and
disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations
often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and
experiences that are necessary for communal worship. The author of
this provocative new book takes a hard look at these assumptions
through a detailed ethnographic study of an unusual religious
community where more than half the congregants live with diagnoses
of mental illness, many coming to the church from personal care
homes or independent living facilities. Here, people's
participation in worship disrupts and extends the formal orders of
worship. Whenever one worships God at Sacred Family Church, there
is someone who is doing it differently. Here, the author argues,
the central elements and the participation in the symbols of
Christian worship raise questions rather than supply clear markers
of unity, prompting the question, What do you need in order to have
a church that assumes difference at its heart? Based on three years
of ethnographic research, The Disabled Church describes how the
Sacred Family community, comprising people with very different
mental abilities, backgrounds, and resources, sustains and embodies
a common religious identity. It explores how an ethic of difference
is both helped and hindered by a church's embodied theology. Paying
careful attention to how these congregants improvise forms of
access to a common liturgy, this book offers a groundbreaking
theology of worship that engages both the fragility and beauty
revealed by difference within the church. As liturgy requires
consent to difference rather than coercion, an aesthetic approach
to differences within Christian liturgy provides a frame for
congregations and Christian liturgists to pay attention to the
differences and disabilities of worshippers. This book creates a
distinctive conversation between critical disability studies,
liturgical aesthetics, and ethnographic theology, offering an
original perspective on the relationship between beauty and
disability within Christian communities. Here is a transformational
theological aesthetics of Christian liturgy that prioritizes human
difference and argues for the importance of the Disabled Church.
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