Proud to Be Deaf - James, Mark
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This 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 imbued with dignity and having their own language and culture. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' understanding of saintliness, which is the ethical pursuit of prioritising a suffering 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…mehr

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This 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 imbued with dignity and having their own language and culture. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' understanding of saintliness, which is the ethical pursuit of prioritising a suffering 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.
Autorenporträt
Mark 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 Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.