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The medical model of disability, though beneficial for the medical professional, is often exclusionary, restrictive and dehumanizing when applied to the lived experience of disability. As a result, a critique of this model was constructed... more
Our Journey Thus Far was co-authored with Jeff Gilbreath, who was Executive Director of L'Arche Hamilton at the time of publication, and who is now L'Arche Ontario Regional Vice Leader. Based on archival research and extensive oral... more
The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their need for freedom and how to seek this... more
Throughout its history, the church has done a poor job including persons with disability. This has often been the result of implicit understandings of rationalism or ableism within modern western society. Additionally, within the... more
How valuable can people with mental disabilities be to others? In this article I present ethnographic material on L'Arche, a Christian charity that provides care. I describe how carers there are trained to see cognitive disability as... more
What role does judgment play in certain kinds of critical anthropology and theology, and in attempts to bring the two disciplines together? I turn to L’Arche, a network of Christian communities in which people with ‘intellectual... more
Jean Vanier egyik utolsó, magyarul megjelent könyvének teológiai értékelése ez a recenzió.
Międzynarodowa Wspólnota Wiara i Światło istnieje oficjalnie od 1971 roku, a do Polski dotarła w roku 1977. Jednak jej historia zaczęła się dużo wcześniej od wydarzeń związanych z cierpieniem francuskiej rodziny Proffit, której... more
Na mocy chrztu świetnego każdy człowiek jest powołany do świętości. Realizuje się ono przede wszystkim w rozwoju duchowym człowieka. Ze względu na powszechność tego dążenia i powołania włączone są w nie także osoby z niepełnosprawnością... more
Recenze knihy Jolany Polákové, v níž je představen fenomén dialogu jako techné, epistémé a mystérion.
This paper compares two ways of providing care for adults with learning disabilities in a British city. It explores how different ways of supporting those who are particularly dependent affect the kind of political belonging these... more
Cette réflexion interroge, dans la perspective d’une anthropologie, les enjeux de citoyenneté liés à l’expérience du handicap (I), qu’on tiendra ici pour constitutive de la commune condition humaine et sociale (1). Le double objectif... more
This paper engages both the work of Karl Barth and Jean Vanier to show how, read together, they provide an account of why persons with disabilities must be included within the life of the church. Barth and Vanier provide a rationale that... more
This chapter takes an anthropological approach to relationships in a community project for people with intellectual disabilities to explore the role of friendship in their lives more generally in the UK. From the blurb of the book: "One... more
Elliott Smith is placed in the context of Heideggerian and Nietzschean existentialism, Foucauldian ethics, Christianity, psychoanalysis, the nonviolence of Judith Butler, and the writings of Thomas Bernhard in order to argue that what's... more
One of the most powerful claims of disability theology is that the rejection of persons with disabilities somehow correlates with a rejection of God. This ‘correlative rejection’ is, however, frequently just stated rather than explored in... more