Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: sacred texts, historical traditions, and social analysis

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. DARLA SCHUMMAssociate Professor of Religion at Hollins University, USA. MICHAEL STOLTZFUSProfessor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Valdosta StateUniversity, USA. INDICE: 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 DaoistContributions to Disability Studies; 'D.Schumm' & 'M.Stoltzfus '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11972-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 268
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés