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Disability and Spirituality - Recovering Wholeness (Paperback)
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Disability and Spirituality - Recovering Wholeness (Paperback)
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Disability and spirituality have traditionally been understood as
two distinct spheres: disability is physical and thus belongs to
health care professionals, while spirituality is religious and
belongs to the church, synagogue, or mosque and their theologians,
clergy, rabbis, and imams. This division leads to stunted
theoretical understanding, limited collaboration, and segregated
practices, all of which contribute to a lack of capacity to see
people with disabilities as whole human beings and full members of
a diverse human family. Contesting the assumptions that separate
disability and spirituality, William Gaventa argues for the
integration of these two worlds. As Gaventa shows, the quest to
understand disability inevitably leads from historical and
scientific models into the world of spiritualityato the ways that
values, attitudes, and beliefs shape our understanding of the
meaning of disability. The reverse is also true. The path to
understanding spirituality is a journey that leads to disabilityato
experiences of limitation and vulnerability, where the core
questions of what it means to be human are often starkly and
profoundly clear. In Disability and Spirituality Gaventa constructs
this whole and human path before turning to examine spirituality in
the lives of those individuals with disabilities, their families
and those providing care, their friends and extended relationships,
and finally the communities to which we all belong. At each point
Gaventa shows that disability and spirituality are part of one
another from the very beginning of creation. Recovering wholeness
encompasses their reunionaa cohesion that changes our vision and
enables us to everyone as fully human.
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