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Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis / by Darla Schumm, Michael J. Stoltzfus.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Religion and sociology.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Judaism.
- Islam.
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Philosophy of Religion.
- Local Subjects:
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Philosophy of Religion.
- Judaism.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613380944
- 9781283380942
- 1283380943
- 9780230339491
- 0230339492
- OCLC:
- 769139712
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