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35systems of authority. The institutions that are the focus of this extended reflectionare making certain efforts towards more community-oriented forms of servicedelivery, focusing more on ‘client choice.’ Nonetheless, they still offer massforms of accommodation and health care amidst a highly bureaucraticadministrative structure.Secondly, as will be argued in more detail later, even the morecommunity-oriented forms of accommodation available today for people withintellectual disability, bear what can be described as an ongoing institutionalcharacter in terms of adherence to traditional institutional qualities. This includesprevailing notions of staff control, lack of autonomy and lack of integration intothe life of the local community, 45 leading to what Goggin and Newell refer to as a“problematic reinstitutionalisation.” 461.6.3 Pastoral CareIn broad generic terms, pastoral care can be defined as “that aspect of theministry of the Church which is concerned with the well-being of individuals andof communities.” 47 This definition raises the debatable issue concerning whetheror not the Christian church can justify an exclusive claim to the role of pastoralcare, and whether Christian theology alone can lay claim to a philosophicalunderstanding of pastoral care. 48 Notwithstanding consideration of the multi-faith45 See, for example,Walmsley, Jan. "Institutionalization: A Historical Perspective." In Deinstitutionalization andPeople with Intellectual Disabilities: In and out of Institutions, edited by Kelly Johnson andRannveig Traustadottir, 50-65. (London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006).Gardner, Julian, and Louise Glanville. "New Forms of Institutionalization in theCommunity." In Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities: In and outof Institutions, edited by Kelly Johnson and Rannveig Traustadottir, 222-30. (London andPhiladelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006), and Holburn, Steve. "Rules: The NewInstitutions." Mental Retardation 28, no. 2 (1990): 89-94.46 Goggin, & Newell. Disability in Australia, 129.47 Campbell, Alastair. "Nature of Pastoral Care." In A Dictionary of Pastoral Care, edited byAlastair Campbell, 188-90. (London: SPCK, 1987), 188.48 There is a growing body of literature today from religious, non-Christian sources, thatchallenges narrowly defined Christian understandings of pastoral care. For example, for aBuddhist perspective see,Hawkins, Peter. "The Buddhist Insight of Emptiness as an Antidote for the Model ofDeficient Humanness Contained within the Label 'Intellectually Disabled'". In Voices inDisability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under, edited by Christopher Newell andAndy Calder, 45-54. (New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2004).Monnet, Mikel. "Developing a Buddhist Approach to Pastoral Care: A Peacemaker's View."In Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care, edited bySheryl Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen Montago, 125-30. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009).For an Islamic perspective see,