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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.

Bloomsbury Collections: Theology 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Jorgenson, Allen G., editor.
Macgregor, Laura, editor.
Reynolds, Thomas E., editor.
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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