{"title":"Re-Membering Methodology in Theologies of Disability","authors":"Sarah Barton","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1988883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1988883","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Writing out of the togetherness of life with his son Adam Brock, Brian Brock’s Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ offers a unique theological methodology that embodies both theoretical argument and Christian praxis. This article traces the methodological landscape of the field of disability theology, illustrating how Brock’s approach both embodies and promotes a praxis that re-members those with and without disabilities in the life of Christian discipleship. Comparing Brock’s method with other theologians who embrace inclusive research methods to investigate disability, as well as responding to critiques of Brock’s methodological approach in Wondrously Wounded, this article examines how Brock resists an “atrophied pneumatology” that creatively challenges the field of theological reflection on disability. Wondrously Wounded embraces a methodology that not only makes normative suggestions for Christian ethical praxis but enacts a praxis reflective of the disability rights maxim “nothing about us without us” throughout the research process itself.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"2003 1","pages":"135 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89507119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic Religious Sisters’ Perception of Meaning in Service for Children with Disabilities: Spiritual and Interpersonal Interactions","authors":"Y. E. M. Beribe, Juliana Marlin Y Benu, I. Kiling","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1981792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1981792","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore how religious sisters experience meaning in their service work for children with disabilities. This study used the photovoice technique where data is collected through interviews based on photos. 10 religious sisters participated in this study. Analysis of data from the interview results obtained four main themes: (1) perception of self and services, (2) dynamics of service, (3) spirituality in ministry, and (4) challenges in ministry. Meaning in service work for children with disabilities is defined by spiritual and interpersonal interactions, highlighting the importance of both aspects in religious sisters’ mission as service workers.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"17 1","pages":"250 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80181822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autism, Doxology, and the Nature of Christian Worship","authors":"J. Leidenhag","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1982840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1982840","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Brian Brock’s Wondrously Wounded teaches us to approach “disability” through the lens of doxology. The first section of this response argues that Brock’s doxological approach combines and expands (rather than rejects) the previously dominant inclusivity and prophetic approaches. I then move on to consider the leitmotif of praise and worship for disability theology. The remainder of this paper puts the doxological approach to constructive use by considering what the sensory and communicative differences that characterize autistic experience might reveal about the nature of Christian worship. It is argued that the interwoven sensory and social differences that characterize autism reveal how the Spirit illuminates the very materiality of the world. The Spirit thereby uses our doxologies to enable all human beings to perceive and respond to God and establish a world in common, the Kingdom of God.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"65 1","pages":"211 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80908250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Strange” But Not Queer: Intellectual Disability and Participation in the Body of Christ","authors":"Calli Micale","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1981794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1981794","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay examines Brian Brock’s use of imagery and symbols in Wondrously Wounded to explain reception of the Spirit’s gifts. By recovering the symbol of wonder, Brock intervenes in discussions among disability theologians about participation in Christ’s body. Above all, he avoids normative discursive forms that work to subordinate those marked disabled. Recent directions in queer theology, however, show that images of wounding and assault reinstate logics of opposition, subordination, and subjection. Drawing from Linn Tonstad and Ashon Crawley, this essay modifies Brock’s proposal by suggesting that images of abundance and excess better illuminate the reconfiguration of community in Christ.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"66 1","pages":"117 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81532691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceiving Autistic Moral Agency","authors":"E. Cochran","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1976696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1976696","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay explores the nature and scope of moral agency and the ways in which attention to autistic moral experience both complicates and enriches our understanding of this term. I argue that the recent work of Brian Brock and Grant Macaskill provides a starting point for developing an account of autistic moral agency as experienced both through maximizing individual capacities for personal responsibility and through participating in meaningful communal relationships as part of the church. I conclude by briefly recognizing two additional lines of thought that need to be addressed in developing an account of autistic moral agency. First, there is need for a more precise analysis of the relation between moral formation and therapeutic intervention. Second, scholars should attend more directly to the ways in which racial disparities in diagnosing and treating autistic individuals must inform our understanding of formation, virtues, and the goods associated with autistic moral agency.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"10 1","pages":"195 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88821287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space, Place, and the Ordering of Materiality in Disability Theology: Locating Disability in the Resurrection and the Body of Christ","authors":"Louise A. Gosbell","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1976697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1976697","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the inception of the field of disability theology, questions have been raised about the place of disabilities in the resurrection. Some scholars contend that disability is a direct consequence of the fall of humanity and thus consider disability as incongruous with life in a perfect and redeemed creation. Other scholars, however, see disability as part of the natural diversity of humanity and allow for the retention of at least some disabilities in the future kingdom. In his 2019 volume Woundrously Wounded, Brian Brock attempts to redirect discussions about disability to the present kingdom encouraging believers to consider anew the place of people with disabilities in church communities. Brock proposes that using Paul’s Body of Christ imagery serves as a useful model for church communities with its emphasis on valuing, including, and celebrating all members. The challenge of the Body of Christ is to recognize that all members are dependent and interconnected and that human abilities and disabilities do not hinder God’s work in and through the Body to bring about his purposes. This paper will give a brief overview of both the elimination and retention models of disability as well as outlining Brock’s challenge to refocus attention on the Body of Christ as the inclusive model for living for churches in the today.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"32 1","pages":"149 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86421706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiritual Healers’ Explanatory Models of Intellectual Disability in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Siyabulela Mkabile, L. Swartz","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1973939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1973939","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Intellectual disability is common in low- and middle-income countries, but there are few healthcare services available. As part of a larger study, we investigated spiritual healers’ beliefs about intellectual disability and family support in Cape Town, South Africa. All eight healers interviewed believed that the church has a role to play in assisting families of children with intellectual disability, but many held misconceptions about this condition. These findings show that there is an opportunity to engage with and further empower spiritual healers in this context, and probably in other, similar contexts, to do more to assist families with children with intellectual disability.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"4 1","pages":"70 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82934484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities#","authors":"Anthony J. Stiff","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1981793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1981793","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Faithfully participating in the Eucharist has been a struggle for the body of Christ since the formation of the Church (I Cor 11:17-34). According to Paul, the Eucharist, as a cruciform meal was intended to perform socializing dynamics that pushed against rather than reinforced social fragmentation and marginalization within the Corinthian body (Gerd Theissen and Mark T. Finney). The meal offered the church in Corinth a way to enable boundaries by giving the church a cruciform location for its identity recognition, moral formation, and missional vocation (Yung Suk Kim, Matthew Meyer Boulton, and Joseph H. Hellerman). Like the church in Corinth, the late modern church continues to struggle with faithfully “keeping the feast.” One example of this struggle that this paper explores is the tension that exists between many church’s practices of the Eucharist and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. The late modern church’s struggle with ableism has ancient roots. Some argue (Saul M. Olyan) that it is present even within the biblical data itself, while others (Amos Yong) argue that ableism is caused by misinterpretations of the biblical data from “normate perspectives” which exclude disability as normal and therefore give way to the stigmatization and marginalization of individuals with disabilities in the church. I argue that when Scripture is read as a whole it offers a more hopeful picture for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities, particularly when it is read in light of the cruciform arc of the redemptive story which is symbolized in the Eucharist meal (Nancy Eiesland, Grant Macaskill, and Edward Foley). 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, with its cruciform picture of the Eucharist feast, offers the late modern church a heuristic model for how to read the biblical data to enable boundaries for individuals with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"15 1","pages":"265 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90955309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding Close Both the Wonder and the Wounds","authors":"K. Timpe","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1976695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1976695","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Brian Brock’s recent Wondrously Wounded is a welcome addition to the growing theology of disability literature. Despite its many virtues, I think Wondrously Wounded runs the risk of distorting the Church’s identity with regard to how it has responded to disability. Drawing on Hilde Lindemann’s work on ‘holding’ and ‘letting go’ of identities, I try to strengthen Brock’s call for the Church. Our collective work toward the realization of the gospel requires that together we hold the Church’s wounds, and not just its wonders, as part of the narrative we recount.","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"54 1","pages":"179 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76619341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discerning Persons: Profound Disability, the Early Church Fathers, and the Concept of Person in Bioethics","authors":"Petre Maican","doi":"10.1080/23312521.2021.1972383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2021.1972383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Disability and Religion","volume":"1 1","pages":"327 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83262210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}