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Spirit and the politics of disablement / Sharon V. Betcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betcher, Sharon V., 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church work with people with disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: telling it slant
- The fear of falling
- Monstrosity, miracle, and mission : religion and the politics of disablement
- Medicine shows : humanitarianism, healing, and the physics of spirit
- Putting my foot (prosthesis, crutches, phantom) down : technology as transcendence
- Conspicuous compassion : race, "disability," and salvific imperialism
- A Crip nation
- Rumor mills : spiritual practice in the Crip nation
- "A cripple on this bridge" : thinking difference, thinking differently
- Never quite herself again : Frida Kahlo's doctrine of creation
- Wisdom to make the world go on.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-246) and index.
- Description based on print version.
- ISBN:
- 9780800662196
- 0800662199
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb30705 hdl
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