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Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis / by Darla Schumm, Michael J. Stoltzfus.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schumm, Darla Y. (Darla Yvonne)
Stoltzfus, Michael, 1965-
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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