TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schumm,Darla Y.
AU  - Stoltzfus,Michael
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: sacred texts, historical traditions, and social analysis 
AV  - BL65.B63 D58 2011
U1  - 200.87 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Disabilities
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Human body
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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. "--
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