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Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349298303
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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.

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ISBN13:9781349298303
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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PART I: SACRED TEXTS, HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND DISABILITY Reading Talmudic Bodies: Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism; J.W.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 TWO: 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

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