Reframing Liturgical Theology Through the Lens of Autism: A Qualitative Study of Autistic Experiences of Worship

The way autistic people experience worship services is typically different from the majority, non-autistic church population. These ways of experiencing worship, however, are mostly disregarded in practical and liturgical theology. This leads not only to exclusion worshiping congregation, but both scholarship miss out on opportunity enrich its practices theology through diversity offered by participants. article presents results a qualitative study involving thirteen in-depth interviews with people, summed up three main themes: community, encountering God. ensuing theological reflection these themes argues that indispensability worshipers body Christ, evaluation “normalcy,” key principles for reframing lens autism.