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Proud to be Deaf: Saintliness in the Catholic Deaf community in South Africa from 1874-1994

Author: Mark James

Publisher: UJ Press

Released: 29 May 2025

ISBN: 9780906785539

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 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 sympat...

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