The Care of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Romania: Between Politics and Theology
The abuses of persons with intellectual disabilities in Romania’s state institutions has been in the attention of European human rights system for many years. Still despite the best efforts put into changing this deplorable situation nothing changed. The article argues that there are two main reason...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 201-214 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Romania
/ Mentally handicapped person
/ Care
/ Deification
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBK Europe (East) NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Deification
B Eastern Orthodoxy B Disability B Human Rights B Romance language area B Care |
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| Summary: | The abuses of persons with intellectual disabilities in Romania’s state institutions has been in the attention of European human rights system for many years. Still despite the best efforts put into changing this deplorable situation nothing changed. The article argues that there are two main reasons for the unsuccessful attempts made to improve the care of persons with intellectual disabilities in Romania. On the one hand, the notion of human rights at the heart of the European vision does not resonate well with the dominant ethical discourse issuing from the Orthodox Church. On the other hand, the main paradigm of Orthodox theology either implies they are defective – because they lack the consciousness and the moral freedom needed to attain deification (the very goal of their existence) – or sees them as instruments for spiritual healing and deification of their carers. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1893959 |