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=245  10$aProud to be Deaf :$bSaintliness in the Catholic Deaf community in South Africa from 1874-1994 /$cMark James.
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=505  0\$a1. Deaf culture and saintliness: Countering audism and phonocentrism2. Reading from infinity: proximity, discourse and the Deaf Community as teacher3. An historical survey of Catholic ministry to the Deaf Community4. Pioneering beginnings: Establishing the first schools for the deaf (1874-1920)5. Acting in good conscience: The triumph of the oral method of deaf education (1921-1937)6. Totality and the oral method of deaf education (1937-1968)7. Catholic schools for the deaf and apartheid (1948-1968)8. Total Communication, bad conscience and the shifts in deaf education (1969-1981)9. The growing use of sign language in Catholic schools for the deaf (1982-1994)10. Introduction11. Dr Robert Simmons (1931-2007): Doctor in Neurobiology and a Deaf activist12. Fr Cyril Axelrod CSsR (1942- ): Compassionate minister instilling dignity13. Ruben Xulu (1942-1985): Africanising church art14 - Dr Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn (1959- ): Black Consciousness and challenging racism and audism in a Catholic school for the deaf15. Fr John Turner CMM (1945-2013): Pastor and teacher16. The Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT): breathing spaces, Deaf empowerment and sign language17. The power of saintly witness to a new world
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=520  \\$aThis thought-provoking book details the history of Catholic ministry to the Deaf community in South Africa over 120 years. This history provides a backdrop to Deaf people’s emerging understanding of themselves as a people embued with dignity and having their own language and culture. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ understanding of saintliness, which is the ethical pursuit of prioritising one’s neighbour’s needs above those of one’s own, provides a lens through which to, both sympathetically and critically, read this history.The book ends by paying tribute to the Deaf people in the Catholic Church who contributed significantly to raise Deaf people’s awareness of their innate dignity and of sign language as a gift from God. ‘The book inspires newness, boldness, and resilience in ministry to approach the Kingdom of God and encounter the face of Christ crucified (crucified by the forces of phonocentrism and audism). There are many lessons to be learnt that gives voice and appeal to what Ruben Xulu’s image evokes: “Christ was Africa crucified”. In sum, the book pronounces words of blessing to remember and sign “a new journey” together from the heart.’Associate Professor Glenn Morrison, School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia.BiographyMark James is a Dominican priest who has worked with Catholic Deaf communities in the Archdiocese of Johannesburg and the Diocese of Manzini, Eswatini for the past 20 years. He is co-ordinator of the Office for Ministry to the Deaf Community under the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC). He is also an honorary lecturer in the History of Christianity, School of Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
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