This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.
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PART I: SACRED TEXTS, HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND DISABILITY Reading Talmudic Bodies: Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism; J.W.Belser What the Rabbis Heard: Deafness in the Mishnah; B.Gracer Islam and Disability: Broad Outlines; M.Ghaly Leprosy in Early Islam; M.L.Long Vitiliginous (Sk)Inscriptions: Historical Religious Interpretations of Involuntarily Whining Skin; E.R.Sierra-Zarella Resurrecting Deformity: Augustine on Wounded and Scarred Bodies in the Heavenly Realm; K.Upson-Saia PART TWO: SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION AND DISABILITY Religious Metaphors as a Justification for Eugenic Control: A Historical Analysis; G.V.O’Brian & A.Molinari Catholicism and Disability: Sacred and Profane; C.James Disability and the Love of Wisdom: De-forming, Re-forming, and Per-forming Philosophy of Religion; A.Yong Beyond Models: Tentative Daoist Contributions to Disability Studies; D.Schumm & M.Stoltzfusเกี่ยวกับผู้แต่ง
Author Darla Schumm: Darla Schumm is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hollins University Author Michael J. Stoltzfus: Michael J. Stoltzfus is a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Valdosta State University
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