Deaf culture

Maritime Sign Language (MSL) emerged in the easternmost provinces in Canada with origins traced as far back as to the Weald, a region in Southeastern England. Therefore, British sign language is a root language that led to the creation of MSL. This type of language emersion is k…

When hearing parents in the United States receive the diagnosis of prelingual deafness for a child, they enter a historically disputatious social field that few, if any, have the slightest notion of previously. What counts as the “proper” intervention to offer parents mirrors lo…

Liturgical inculturation in the twenty-first century has stalled for many reasons, one of which is the reality of the postmodern world. In an increasingly global, multicultural, and rapidly changing world, practices of liturgical inculturation that rely on a “structural-function…