Spirituality and Intellectual Disability

Foreword
Preface
I. Healing Mind, Body, and Soul: Theoretical Foundations for Understandings of Spiritual Health for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Recognition of Spirituality in Health Care: Personal and Universal Implications
Authenticity in Community: Theory and Practice of an Inclusive Anthropology in Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Defining and Assessing Spirituality and Spiritual Supports: A Rational for Inclusion in Theory and Practice
II. Spirituality and Intellectual Disability Around the World: Cultural and Religious Perspectives on Healing Mind, Body, and Soul
Judaism and the Person with Intellectual Disability
Islam and the Person with Intellectual Disability
Disabled Women in Islam: Middle Eastern Perspective
Cultural/Spiritual Attributions as Independent Variables in the Development of Identity and Potential for Persons of Exceptionality: A Case Study of North American Christianity and Native American Religious Influence
Open Wide the Doors to Christ: Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and the Roman Catholic Church
III. Bringing Science Into Spirituality: Research and Practice
Spiritual Health and Persons with Intellectual Disability: A Review
Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols
IV. From Theory and Theology to Practice: Creative Ways of Facilitating Spiritual Health
Liturgical Celebration with People with a Severe Mental Disability: Giving the Gospel Hands and Feet
The Benefits of Jewish Mourning Rituals for the Grieving Individual with Intellectual Disabilities
Bridge Ministries for Disability Concerns: A Community Ministry Model
Index
Reference Notes Included