Intellectual Disability Religion and Spirituality Resources

News and Resources

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Spirituality and Intellectual Disability

Corrie ten Boom and People with Disabilities

Books

A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response

Bibliography

The Buddhist Insight of Emptiness as an Antidote for the Model of Deficient Humanness Contained Within the Label ‘Intellectually Disabled’

P. W. Hawkins, “The Buddhist Insight of Emptiness as an Antidote for the Model of Deficient Humanness Contained Within the Label ‘Intellectually Disabled’”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 8, pp. 45–54, 2004.

Judaism and the Person with Intellectual Disability

J. Merrick, Gabbay, Y., and Lifshitz, H., “Judaism and the Person with Intellectual Disability”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 5, pp. 49–63, 2001.

Restoring the image: Spirituality, faith, and cognitive disability

J. Swinton, “Restoring the image: Spirituality, faith, and cognitive disability”, Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 36, pp. 21–28, 1997.

Whose Story Am I? Redescribing Profound Intellectual Disability in the Kingdom of God

J. Swinton, Mowat, H., and Baines, S., “Whose Story Am I? Redescribing Profound Intellectual Disability in the Kingdom of God”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 15, pp. 5–19, 2011.