The Disabled Church : Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship /

The Disabled Church : Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship /

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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 comm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spurrier, Rebecca F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Disabilities > Religious aspects > Christianity
People with disabilities > Religious life
Public worship
Christian worship
beauty
community
congregation
difference
disability
embodiment
ethnographic theology
ethnography
justice
liturgy
mental illness
theological aesthetics
Dictionaries
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Disabling Liturgy, Desiring Human Difference
  • 1. Gathering: Unfolding a Liturgy of Difference
  • 2. Weaving: Aesthetics of Interdependence
  • 3. Disrupting: Aesthetics of Time and Work
  • 4. Naming: Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming
  • 5. Sending: Aesthetics of Belonging
  • Conclusion. The Disabled Church: Beauty and the Creation of a Community of Difference
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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