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Disrupting Stories and Images of the Church : Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability / Edited by Allen G. Jorgenson, Laura MacGregor, and Tomas E. Reynolds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care.
- Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church work with people with disabilities.
- Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Disabilities.
- Pastoral theology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- London : T&T Clark, 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- This book provides theological reflection on the image of the church as informed by the lived experiences of people who provide care for children with disabilities.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements Introduction – Section One: Themes in Healing the Church with Disabilities Chapter One: Beyond Saints and Superheroes: A Phenomenological Study of the Spiritual Care Needs of Parents Raising Children with Disabilities Chapter Two: A Place to Belong – Chapter Three: Cripping Space in the Sacraments – Chapter Four:Beyond Transactional Ministry: Praying and Advocating with Jesus toward Justice– Chapter Five:A Lens of Unproductivity: A Theological Hermeneutic for Disability Justice – Chapter Six:Three Mothers, Three Stories: Spiritual Abuse, Theodicies, Disability, and Parenting: – Chapter Seven: The Disabled and Eschatological Church – Section Two: Disabling Images of the Church Chapter Eight: The Church as Kin (Cruise) Ship– Chapter Nine:Radical Re-Visioning Through Mad Studies: Advancing Mad-Justice in Faith Communities – Chapter Ten: Negotiating Disclosure: To Mask or Not to Mask? – Chapter Eleven:The Exclusionary Circle: Analysis and Response – Chapter Twelve: The Church as a Rooted Tree, Or: Stayed on Jesus! A Partially-Preached Sermon – Chapter Thirteen:Days of Fullness: Warm Bread as a Metaphor for Churches that Include People with Developmental Disabilities – Section Three: Interreligious Insights for Disability Theology Chapter Fourteen: The Intersections of Faith, Culture and Disability: A Muslim-Canadian Perspective – Chapter Fifteen: Moments of Spirit: Access and Inclusion in Jewish Living – Chapter Sixteen: Navigating the Two Buddhist Perspectives on Disability – Chapter Seventeen: A Sacred Bond: Indigenous Reflections on Disability, Love, and the Church – Chapter Eighteen: The Sacred Body: Exploring the Theologies of Difference in Islam –
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9798881898779
- 1-9787-7180-0
- 9798216253976
- 9781978771802
- OCLC:
- 1570552430
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