Preface ix
Introduction: Disabling Liturgy, Desiring Human Difference
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1. Gathering: Unfolding a Liturgy of Difference 29
2. Weaving: Aesthetics of Interdependence 65
3. Disrupting: Aesthetics of Time and Work 99
4. Naming: Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming 131
5. Sending: Aesthetics of Belonging 167
Conclusion: The Disabled Church: Beauty and the Creation of
a Community of Difference 195
Acknowledgments 215
Notes 217
Bibliography 235
Index 241
Rebecca F. Spurrier is Associate Dean for Worship Life and Assistant Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary.
An in-depth engagement with a unique community where mental illness
is not pathologized. Spurrier does not provide a romantic view
where love overcomes and unites. Rather, she takes the time to
explore the messiness of community building where fissures and
distance are negotiated for the overall well-being of the
community. Through a negotiation of difference, Holy Family tries
to welcome all to the table of worship and the table of sustenance.
The Disabled Church is a detailed and thoughtful ethnographic
study.---Michael Gill, Syracuse University
An original and stimulating contribution for the field of theology.
With careful attention to the modes of communication that occur in
worship--attending to sensory participation, the role of art and
beauty--Spurrier creates interesting and important challenges to
the longstanding limitation of the field of theology to doctrine
and creeds.---Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School
The beauty is there, all over the church, on the inside, right
there on the inside of the church . . . That's us, that's the
beauty, the attitude and the love and respect, and showing respect
and love and happiness.---Rose Williams, congregant
By engaging theological aesthetics, disability studies, and the
relationships Rebecca Spurrier formed over the course of her
fieldwork, The Disabled Church offers vital lessons for not only
liturgists, but anyone interested in the intersection of
ethnography and theology.-- "Ecclessial Practices"
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