TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schumm,Darla
AU  - Stoltzfus,Michael
TI  - Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Sacred texts, historical traditions, and social analysis 
SN  - 9780230339491 
U1  - 200.87 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Disabilities
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Human body
N1  - Electronic book text; Epublication based on: 9780230119727, 2011; Part I: Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions and Disability  Reading Talmudic Bodies: Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism-- J.Watts Belser  What the Rabbis Heard: Deafness in the Mishnah-- B.Gracer  Islam and Disability: Broad Outlines-- M.Ghaly  Leprosy in Early Islam-- M.L.Long  Vitiliginous (Sk)Inscriptions: Historical Religious Interpretations of Involuntarily Whining Skin-- E.R.Sierra-Zarella  Resurrecting Deformity: Augustine on Wounded and Scarred Bodies in the Heavenly Realm-- K.Upson-Saia  PART II: Social and Philosophical Perspectives on Religion and Disability  Religious Metaphors as a Justification for Eugenic Control: A Historical Analysis-- G.V.O'Brian & A.Molinari  Catholicism and Disability: Sacred and Profane-- C.James  Disability and the Love of Wisdom: De-forming, Re-forming, and Per-forming Philosophy of Religion-- A.Yong  Beyond Models: Tentative Daoist Contributions to Disability Studies-- D.Schumm & M.Stoltzfus; Access restricted to subscribing institutions
N2  - This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation
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