Spirituality and Intellectual Disability: International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind, and Soul Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Recognition of Spirituality in Health Care: Personal and Universal Implications	1
	Authenticity in Community: Theory and Practice of an Inclusive Anthropology in Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities	13
	Defining and Assessing Spirituality and Spiritual Supports: A Rationale for Inclusion in Theory and Practice	29
	Judaism and the Person with Intellectual Disability	49
	Islam and the Person with Intellectual Disability	65
	Disabled Women in Islam: Middle Eastern Perspective	73
	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	87
	Open Wide the Doors to Christ: Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and the Roman Catholic Church	99
	Spiritual Health and Persons with Intellectual Disability: A Review	113
	Teaching Jewish Mentally-Retarded Youngsters Holiday Awareness Through Symbols	123
	Liturgical Celebration with People with a Severe Mental Disability: Giving the Gospel Hands and Feet	141
	The Benefits of Jewish Mourning Rituals for the Grieving Individual with Intellectual Disabilities	147
	Bridge Ministries for Disability Concerns: A Community Ministry Model	157
	Index	173