Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : sacred texts, historical traditions, and social analysis / / edited by Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus.

"This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or...

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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxii, 246 p.
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245 0 0 |a Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam  |h [electronic resource] :  |b sacred texts, historical traditions, and social analysis /  |c edited by Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b Palgrave Macmillan,  |c 2011. 
300 |a xxii, 246 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: -- Part One: Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions and Disability * Reading Talmudic Bodies: Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism--Julia Watts Belser * What the Rabbis Heard: Deafness in the Mishnah--Bonnie Gracer * Islam and Disability: Broad Outlines--Mohammed Ghaly * Leprosy in Early Islam--Matthew L. Long * Vitiliginous (Sk)Inscriptions: Historical Religious Interpretations of Involuntarily Whining Skin--Elizabeth R. Sierra-Zarella * Resurrecting Deformity: Augustine on Wounded and Scarred Bodies in the Heavenly Realm--Kristi Upson-Saia * PART TWO: Social and Philosophical Perspectives on Religion and Disability * Religious Metaphors as a Justification for Eugenic Control: A Historical Analysis--Gerald V. O'Brian & Autumn Molinari * Catholicism and Disability: Sacred and Profane--Christine James * Disability and the Love of Wisdom: De-forming, Re-forming, and Per-forming Philosophy of Religion--Amos Yong * Beyond Models: Tentative Daoist Contributions to Disability Studies--Darla Schumm & Michael Stoltzfus. 
520 |a "This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. "--  |c Provided by publisher. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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