Waist-High in the World: A Life among the Nondisabled; Nancy Mairs
Poster Child: A Memoir; Emily Rapp
*If I Had Wheels or Love: Collected Poems of Vassar Miller; Vassar Miller
*Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader; James Trent and Steven Noll
*The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability; Nancy L. Eiesland
*Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil; John Swinton
*Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics; Hans S. Reinders
Religion and Disability: Essays in Scripture, Theology, and Ethics, edited by Marilyn E. Bishop
L'arche
*Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness - by Vanier and Hauerwas.
A lovely NPR interview - "Speaking of Faith" interview by Krista Tippett with Jean Vanier: http://being.publicradio.org/
"The Sacraments in L'arche" by AM Allchin, in Encounter with Mystery: Reflection on L'arche and Living with Disability edited by Frances Young
Church's Response to Ministry with Persons with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
"On Being Fully Human" by Benedict Ashley and Ashley O'Rourke, in Healthcare Ethics: A Theological Analysis by Catholic Health Association
Return to Community: Building Support Systems for People with Psychiatric Disabilities by Paul J. Carling
Sharing the Journey: Active Reflections on the Church's Presence with Mentally Retarded Persons by Ellen Cook
A Place for All: Mental Retardation, Catechesis, and Liturgy by Mary Therese Harrington
Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access by Edward Foley - includes article by Mary Therese Harrington, "Affectivity and Symbol in the Process of Catechesis."
Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church by Stanley Hauerwas
Other Resources
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center has a budding (few years old) Disabilities, Religion, and Spirituality program - this is the link to their webpage: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/
*I own the books with asterisk - if you'd like to borrow, I'd love to lend.
**This list is compiled from:
Reading list for Duke Divinity Professor Amy Laura Hall's course "Discipleship and Disability", Kate Lassiter's Master's thesis, "Returning Home: A Christian Ethic of Housing for Persons with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities"
