Thinking about the “why”-question
This chapter investigates the initial stage of disability experience when the “why?”- question arises. It seeks to elucidate the “why?”- question against the background of the breakdown of identity and meaning. It starts however with discussing the issue of representation. How to think about disabil...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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Review and expositor
Year: 2016, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-197 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God RG Pastoral care |
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| Summary: | This chapter investigates the initial stage of disability experience when the “why?”- question arises. It seeks to elucidate the “why?”- question against the background of the breakdown of identity and meaning. It starts however with discussing the issue of representation. How to think about disability experience when one is oneself a ‘temporarily-abled person’? Following a lead by Nancy Eiesland, this question is answered in terms of the task of careful and just listening. This task is then performed with regard to ‘first-person’ accounts of being confronted by disability. These accounts testify the experience of a gap between a ‘before’ and ‘after’ that separates life as it was known but has broken down and a dreaded future life that is as yet unknown. The chapter ends with considering the task of careful and just listening in the context of faith communities. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637316639876 |