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• American Academy of Religion: Panels session on Disability in the Christian Tradition

  Teaching Religion Section and Religion and Disability Studies Group
  Theme: Teaching Disability in the Christian Tradition

  Monday 18th November 2012
  McCormick Place South, Chicago

  Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen, Presiding
  This panel explored how we can teach and understand the topic of disability in ways that attend to the Christian tradition and what it has to offer. More specifically, it will reflect on the recent book edited by Brian Brock and John Swinton, Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). The significance of this book is twofold. First, it provides an important resource for teaching disability in theology courses and programs. Second, it indicates a wider turn in theological work on disability to taking the tradition and what it has to offer more seriously. This panel will reflect on and assess this book and turn from a variety of perspectives.

  Panelists:
  Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology
  Willie Jennings, Duke University
  Sarah Melcher, Xavier University
  Tom Reynolds, University of Toronto
  John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary
  Responding:
  Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen
  John Swinton, University of Aberdeen

• Teaching Religion Section part 1
• Teaching Religion Section part 2

   

• Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier at the Centre's September 2006 conference. Recordings of the sessions

• Brian Brock BBC radio interview: Religion and Autism

• John Swinton and Harriet Mowat 'Chaplaincy: The new profession' presented at the College of Healthcare Chaplains conference, Durham, England 2006

Papers and Essays by Centre Personnel

John Swinton

• Moving inwards, moving outwards, moving upwards: the role of spirituality during the early stages of breast cance

• Who is the God We Worship? Theologies of Disability; Challenges and New Possibilities

• Moving beyond clarity: towards a thin, vague, and useful understanding of spirituality in nursing care

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

• Moving beyond clarity: towards a thin, vague, and useful understanding of spirituality in nursing care

• The Body of Christ has Down's Syndrome: Theological reflections on vulnerability, disability, and Graceful communities.

• Forgetting Whose We Are:Theological Reflections on Personhood,Faith and Dementia

• Identity and resistance: why spiritual care needs ‘enemies’Building a church for strangers: Theology, Church and Learning disabilities

• Persons in relation: The care of persons with learning disabilities

• Restoring the Image:Spirituality, Faith,and Cognitive Disability

• Community, culture and character: the place of the virtues in
  psychiatric nursing practice

• Spirituality and the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities

Brian Brock

• “Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled,” in Stanley Hauerwas and Sam Wells ed., Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 139-151.

• “Supererogation and the Riskyness of Human Vulnerability,” in Hans Reinders, ed., The Paradox of Disability: Responses to Jean Vanier and L'Arche Communities from Theology and the Sciences. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, 127-139.

• “The Disabled in the New World of Genetic Testing: A Snapshot of Shifting Landscapes,” with Stephanie Brock. In John Swinton and Brian Brock, eds., Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. London: T&T Clark, 2007, 29-43.

• “Genetics, Conversation and Conversion: A Discourse at the Interface of Molecular Biology and Christian Ethics,” with Walther Doerfler and Hans Ulrich. In John Swinton and Brian Brock, eds., Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. London: T&T Clark, 2007, 146-160.

• “The Naked Truth About Disability,” The Tablet, 24 April 2005, 10-11.

• “The Physician As Political Actor: Late Abortion and the Strictures of Liberal Moral Discourse,” with John Wyatt, Studies in Christian Ethics, 19:2, January 2006, 153-168.

• “Autism, Care, and Christian Hope,” in The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, 13:1, January-March 2009, 7-28.

   

   

   

   

  Sermon, “Psalm 22: Standing By God in His Hour of Grieving. Living with the disabled and the question of stem cells” Brian Brock, St. Andrews Cathedral, 14 May 2006.

• Autism, Care, and Christian Hope

Harriet Mowat

Community Chaplaincy Litening Project

The spiritual care of older people.The report of a group research study

Religion and Suicide: exploring the role of the church in deaths by suicide in Highland, Scotland.

Ageing, Spirituality and health

David Hay

• The Spirit of the Child [Korean translation], Seoul: Daiseo Publishing Company (forthcoming, October, 2011)

• God’s Biologist: A Life of Alister Hardy, London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011

• Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2007

• Something There: The Biology of the Human Spirit, London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2006; Philadelphia: Templeton, 2007

• The Spirit of the Child (with Rebecca Nye) [revised edition], London & Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley, 2006

• Religious Experience Today: Studying the Facts, London: Cassell, 1990

• New Methods in RE Teaching: An Experiential Approach (Ed), London: Oliver & Boyd, 1990

• Exploring Inner Space: Scientists and Religious Experience, London: Penguin Books, 1982

Articles

• ‘Altruism as an aspect of relational consciousness and how culture inhibits it’, in, Robert W. Sussman & C. Robert Cloninger (Eds.) Origins of Altruism and Cooperation, New York: Springer, 2011, 349-376

•  ‘Pondering the role of spirituality in Education’, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 2011

• (With Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska and Joanna Krotofil), ‘Between Universalism and Ethnic Particularism: Polish Migrants to the United Kingdom. A Perspective from the Psychology of Religion.’ Studia Migracyjne - Przeglad Polonijny (Migration studies - Polish Diaspora Review) 37 (1), 2011, 223-236.

• ‘Religion under siege: a scientific response’ [Alister Hardy Memorial Lecture, Oxford], Implicit Religion 11 (2), 2008, 143-152

• ‘Are we naturally religious?’ TheosThinkTank February 2008

• ‘Music as revelation’, RE Today 25 (1), 2007, 4-5

• (With Helmut Reich & Michael Utsch) ‘Spiritual development: intersections and divergence with religious development', in, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Pamela Ebstyne King, Linda Wagener & Peter L. Benson (eds.) The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence, Sage Publications, 2006, 46-59

• ‘Jakosc zycia/jakosc zarzadzania: znaczenie swiadomosci relacyjnej’, Problemy Zarzadzania (Journal of School of Management, Warsaw University, Poland), 1, 2006, 123-136.

• (With Pawel Socha) ‘Spirituality as a natural phenomenon: bringing biological and psychological perspectives together', Zygon, 49 (3), 2005, 589-612
• 'Experience' in, Arthur Holder (ed.) Companion to Christian Spirituality, Oxford: Blackwells, 2005, 419-441

• 'Experience' in, Philip Sheldrake (ed.) Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, London: SPCK, 2005, 295-297

• ‘A biologist of God: Alister Hardy in Aberdeen ', Aberdeen University Review, LX, 3, No. 211, 2004, 209-223

• ‘Quality of life/quality of management: the importance of relational consciousness', European Business Review 16 (4), 2004, 435-445

• 'Why is implicit religion implicit?' Implicit Religion 6 (1), 2003, 17-41

• 'Spirituality and primordial experience', in Arto Kallionemi, Antti Räsanen & Päivi Hilska (eds.), Studia Pedagogica (Helsinki) 30, 2003, 1-14

• 'Nurture, commitment and curriculum' in, Michael A Hayes & Liam Gearon (eds) Contemporary Catholic Education, Leominster: Gracewing Press, 2002, 170-186

• 'The biological basis of spiritual awareness', in Ursula King (ed.) Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium, Sussex Academic Press, 2001, 124-135

• 'The cultural context of stage models of religious experience', International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 11 (4), 2001, 241-246

• 'Spirituality versus individualism: why we should nurture relational consciousness', International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 5 (1), 2000, 37-48

• 'The Religious Experience and Education Project: Experiential Learning in Religious Education', in, Michael Grimmitt (ed.) Pedagogies of Religious Education: Case Studies in the Research and Development of Good Pedagogic Practice in RE , Great Wakering: McCrimmons, 2000, 70-87

Reports and Teaching Materials

• No box to tick: A booklet for carers on meeting the spiritual and religious needs of people with learning disabilities

• What is important to you? A booklet for people with learning disabilities

• Religious expression, a fundamental human right: The report of an action research project on meeting the religious needs of people with learning disabilities

• Inspiring Hope: recognising the importance of spirituality in a whole person approach to mental health.

• Publications by John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien