Can people with profound intellectual disabilities or dementia still engage with God? Does spirituality transcend our cognitive abilities?
In this CPOSAT journal article, The Universality of Spirituality and Spiritual Intelligence, Michiel Bouman explores the concept of spiritual intelligence, and whether spirituality is truly universal and accessible to everyone.
Spirituality, especially in the perspective of universality, is of the essence for disability theology. It provides answers to a genuine concern of many religious persons, namely, whether their loved ones with profound intellectual disabilities or dementia can (still) engage with the transcendent, for example, as to whether they can know God.
In this paper, I assess whether there are reasonable grounds for the universality of spirituality.
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