Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

by Schumm, Darla; Stoltzfus, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780230119727
• ISBN10: 0230119727
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Darla Schumm is an associate professor of Religion at Hollins University. Michael Stoltzfus is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Valdosta State University.

Table of Contents

Part One: Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions and Disability * Reading Talmudic Bodies:  Disability, Narrative, and the Gaze in Rabbinic Judaism--Julia Watts Belser * What the Rabbis Heard:  Deafness in the Mishnah--Bonnie Gracer * Islam and Disability: Broad Outlines--Mohammed Ghaly * Leprosy in Early Islam--Matthew L. Long * Vitiliginous (Sk)Inscriptions:  Historical Religious Interpretations of   Involuntarily Whining Skin--Elizabeth R. Sierra-Zarella * Resurrecting Deformity:  Augustine on Wounded and Scarred Bodies in the Heavenly Realm--Kristi Upson-Saia * PART TWO: Social and Philosophical Perspectives on Religion and Disability * Religious Metaphors as a Justification for Eugenic Control: A Historical Analysis--Gerald V. O’Brian & Autumn Molinari * Catholicism and Disability: Sacred and Profane--Christine James * Disability and the Love of Wisdom: De-forming, Re-forming, and Per-forming Philosophy of Religion--Amos Yong * Beyond Models:  Tentative Daoist Contributions to Disability Studies--Darla Schumm & Michael Stoltzfus