Deaf pastoral care
Deaf pastoral care , the (formerly deaf and dumb pastoral care ) is the diaconal and pastoral approach to the deaf person ( characteristic of the church ) in order to enable the deaf to access the “hearing world”, to accompany him in life situations and to preach “ God's word ”. Hence the false assumption that the pastoral care of the deaf is primarily about the pastoral care of the deaf.
history
Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Epée (1712–1789) and Samuel Heinicke (1727–1790) are considered to be the founders of "welfare for the deaf and dumb". Abbé l'Epée founded the first institution for the deaf and mute in Paris in 1770 and introduced sign language there . Cantor Heinicke founded a similar institution in Leipzig in 1778 , in which the spoken language method was preferred. In the 19th century, some religious orders also took on pastoral care for the deaf, among them the St. Joseph Sisters of Ursberg and the Lioba Sisters of Tauberbischofsheim .
Deaf pastoral care today
Germany
In today's sense, pastoral care for the deaf is community work that includes all church features ( preaching , teaching and pastoral care ). This work differs from “normal” church work mainly in the use of sign language. Based on a new perception and appreciation of sign language, the development towards a new (non-disabled) self-confidence began in the deaf community in Germany in the 1980s. This discovery of the own culture of the deaf and the struggle for the recognition of sign language were also reflected in the pastoral care of the deaf and are a constant challenge to the endeavor to become more of a church for the deaf than a church for the deaf.
In the area of the Protestant regional churches in Germany, pastoral care for the deaf is organizationally an area of special pastoral care (cf. hospital pastoral care , prison pastoral care , etc.). At the EKD level, the Protestant pastoral care for the deaf is represented by the German Working Group for Protestant deaf pastoral care (DAFEG).
In the German Catholic Church , the Association of the Catholic Deaf of Germany (VKGD) is responsible for the deaf communities as the umbrella organization. Specifically, the individual dioceses use pastors for this. The "Pastoral Care for People with Disabilities of the German Bishops' Conference " department supports the deaf pastoral care through various activities: annual meetings of deaf pastoralists, additional qualifications for employees, publication of the magazine "Disability & Pastoral", political representation. The office also supports the other disabled chaplains in a similar way. The office for pastoral care for the disabled works closely with the diocesan deaf chaplains and the Association of Catholic Deaf Germany (VKGD).
There are Christian deaf communities in the free church area .
literature
Carl Andresen , Georg Denzler : Dictionary of Church History. dtv , Munich 1982, ISBN 3-423-03245-6 , p. 575.
Individual evidence
- ↑ z. B. Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover - Pastoral Care for the Deaf [1]
- ^ Association of the Catholic Deaf in Germany
- ^ German Bishops' Conference pastoral care for people with disabilities
- ↑ z. B. Pastoral care for the deaf in the diocese of Mainz [2]