‘Different, not less’: pastoral care of autistic adults within Christian churches

Burnett, Erin R.

doi:10.1080/1756073x.2020.1850402

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“…Like other autism research (Botha & Cage, 2022;Luterman, 2019), theology of autism is beginning to respond to autistic people's critiques. Academic theologians are beginning to ask autistic people about their own experiences of church, faith and spirituality (Burnett, 2021;Rapley, 2021;Tam, 2021;van Ommen & Endress, 2002). 22 A few theologians are challenging theology's own history of dehumanising us (Leidenhag, 2021(Leidenhag, , 2022, questioning deficit-based paradigms of autism (Macaskill, 2019) and responding to autistic people who have been harmed or marginalized by churches, challenging the church to do better (Macaskill, 2019;van Ommen & Endress, 2002).…”

Section: : Neurodiversity and Theologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pastoral theology focuses on the care of autistic people (Brock, 2019;Burnett, 2021;Tam, 2021), but has less to say about barriers to belonging in churches (Waldock, 2023). When theology distances autism from disability (Leidenhag, 2021;van Ommen & Endress, 2002), 24 and rejects disability theory as irrelevant to churches (Brock, 2019;Edmonds, 2011;Evers, 2017;Swinton, 2011), it becomes harder for neurodivergent people to represent ourselves differently.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…And on all neurotypes other than autism -ADHD, dyspraxia, Tourette's Syndrome -academic theology is largely silent. 27 Instead, theology imagines churches as ideal Christian communities where neurodivergent people will find welcome and friendship (Brock, 2019;Burnett, 2021;Swinton, 2012;Tam, 2022).…”

Section: Yet Theology Still Overwhelmingly Speaks About Us Without Us 23mentioning

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Speaking with Us, Not for Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice

Jacobs

2023

Journal of Disability & Religion

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To belong in the Christian tradition, we must be able to contribute to it. Yet neurodivergent Christians have rarely been enabled to tell our own stories about ourselves as a vital part of God's (neuro)diverse creation. In common with other autism research, academic theology is framed by pathologizing clinical paradigms of autism; neurodivergent people's situated knowledge about ourselves has not always been valued in the field. In this aut-ethnography, I use reflections from a decade of engaging with autism theology -often a painful experience of Othering -to frame a response informed by critical autism and neurodiversity studies. Drawing on lived theology from autistic research participants, I consider what our neurodiversity theologies have to offer to academic theology. Finally, I ask how theologians can do justly by speaking with, not for, neurodivergent people.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Yet Theology Still Overwhelmingly Speaks About Us Without Us 23mentioning

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Section: Yet Theology Still Overwhelmingly Speaks About Us Without Us 23mentioning

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Speaking with Us, Not for Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice

Jacobs

2023

Journal of Disability & Religion

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“…İnsanoğlunun yaşadığı bu sorunların çözümünde, dini ya da manevi kaynaklara başvurmaya geçmişten günümüze kadar devam ettiği görülmektedir. Özellikle hastanelerde uzun süreli tedavi gören kronik ya da kanser hastaları (Doğan, 2017;1285, Lobb, Schmidt, Jerzmanowska, Swing ve Thristiawati, 2019140, Şentürk, 2020;386), cezaevlerindeki hükümlü ya da tutuklular (Abay, 2020;246, Krogsrud, 2021;65) madde kötüye kullanımı sonrası bağımlılık sorununa sahip olanlar (Altuntaş, Öztürk ve Arıkan, 2019;201, Charles, 2020;104), engelli bir bireyin yakını olanlar (Burnett, 2020;215, Çınar, 2018;40) gibi zorlu yaşam olaylarına sahip olan bireylerin manevi temelli yardımlara yöneldikleri gözlemlenmektedir. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri başta olmak üzere bir Almanya, İngiltere ve Hollanda gibi Avrupa ülkelerinde de yaygın olarak yürütülen bir yardım alanı olan manevi danışmanlık İngilizce olarak yapılan çalışmalarda farklı kavramlarla kullanıldığı görülmektedir.…”

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