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

Contributor(s): Schumm, Darla Y. (Darla Yvonne) | Stoltzfus, Michael, 1965- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 246 pSubject(s): Disabilities -- Religious aspects | Human body -- Religious aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 200.87 LOC classification: BL65.B63 | D58 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

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