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 PossibilitiesMoving 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

Audio/MP3

• 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

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