{"product_id":"the-disabled-church-9780823285532","title":"The Disabled Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and experiences that are necessary for communal worship. The author of this provocative new book takes a hard look at these assumptions through a detailed ethnographic study of an unusual religious community where more than half the congregants live with diagnoses of mental illness, many coming to the church from personal care homes or independent living facilities. Here, peopleâs participation in worship disrupts and extends the formal orders of worship. Whenever one worships God at Sacred Family Church, there is someone who is doing it differently.   Here, the author argues, the central elements and the participation in the symbols of Christian worship raise questions rather than supply clear markers of unity, prompting the questio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e| ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Disabling Liturgy, Desiring Human Difference | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Gathering: Unfolding a Liturgy of Difference | 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Weaving: Aesthetics of Interdependence | 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eDisrupting: Aesthetics of Time and Work | 99\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eNaming: Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming | 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eSending: Aesthetics of Belonging | 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: The Disabled Church: Beauty and the Creation of a Community of Difference | 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e| 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e| 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e| 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e| 241\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737474478423,"sku":"9780823285532","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823285532.jpg?v=1723811234","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-disabled-church-9780823285532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}