The Order of Disturbance: Theological Reflections on Strangeness and Strangers, and the Inclusion of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Faith Communities

In churches and faith communities, the presence of persons with intellectual disabilities is frequently experienced as a disturbance of familiar patterns of behavior and interaction. This disturbance is not only rooted in historical and cultural informed mechanisms of exclusion. From a philosophical...

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Main Author: Meininger, Herman Paul 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2008
In: Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2008, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 347-364
Further subjects:B Hospitality
B Stranger
B intellectual disabilities
B Otherness
B Faith Community
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