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Title Disability and religious diversity : cross-cultural and interreligious perspectives / edited by Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages)
Contents PART I: RELIGION, NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND DISABILITY -- Performance of Muslim Daily Prayer by Physically Disabled Practitioners; A. Dokumaci -- Since Feathers Have Grown on My Body: Madness, Art, and Healing in Celtic Reconstructionist Spirituality; E.R. Laurie -- Whatever the Sacrifice: Illness and Authority in the Baha'i Faith; P. Gilman -- Stations of Victoria & Rosalina's Broken Bread; A.B. Valeras -- PART II: RELIGION, ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY -- Disabled Rites: Ritual and Disability in Wicca; J. Pearson -- A Secular Case for Religious Inclusion of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities; J. McNair & A. Schindler -- Health and Disability Care in Native American & Alaska Native Communities; L.L. Lovern -- PART III: INTER-RELIGIOUS AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS OF DISABILITY -- Native American Concepts Involving Human Differences; L.L. Lovern -- Chronic Illness and Disability: Paradigms of Suffering and Healing in Buddhism and Christianity; M. Stoltzfus & D. Schumm -- Disability, Agency and Engagement: Three Wisdom Traditions Call to be Radically Available; L. Bejoian, M. Quinn & M. Bazna -- Best Practices for Faith-Based Organizations Working With Deaf Communities in Developing Countries; A. Wilson & K. VanGilder
Section 1. Religion, Narrative Identity and Disability: 1. God's will?: how two young Latina Catholic women negotiate a hidden disability identity / Aimee Burke Valeras; 2. Whatever the sacrifice: illness and authority in the Baha'i faith / Priscilla Gilman; 3. Since feathers have grown on my body: madness, art, and healing in Celtic reconstructionist spirituality / Erynn Rowman Laurie -- Section 2. Religion, Accessibility, and Disability: 4. Disabled rites: ritual and disability in Wicca / Jo Pearson; 5. A secular case for religious inclusion of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities / Jeff McNair and Abigail Schindler; 6. Health and disability care in Native American and Alaska native communities / Lavonna L. Lovern -- Section 3. Interreligious and Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Disability: 8. Chronic illness and disability: narratives of suffering and healing in Buddhism and Christianity / Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus; 9. Disability, agency and engagement: three wisdom traditions' call to be radically available / Lynne M. Bejoian, Molly Quinn, and Maysaa S. Bazna; 10. Native American concepts Involving human differences / Lavonna L. Lovern
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."-- Provided by publisher
"This edited collection critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors incorporate literature and theoretical analysis from the field of disability studies resulting in a comparative text reflecting multicultural, interdisciplinary and inter-religious attitudes and perspectives. The book is appealing to a broad readership including members of the disabled community, scholars and students from the disciplines of religious studies, disability studies and cultural studies, social service and healthcare professionals, and religious practitioners from distinctive traditions. Multiple contributors approach their writing from the perspective of living with some form of disability or chronic illness"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Disabilities -- Religious aspects
Chronic diseases -- Religious aspects.
Human body -- Religious aspects.
Philosophy of religion.
RELIGION -- General.
RELIGION -- Theology.
RELIGION -- History.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Chronic diseases -- Religious aspects
Disabilities -- Religious aspects
Human body -- Religious aspects
Philosophy of religion.
Form Electronic book
Author Schumm, Darla Y. (Darla Yvonne), editor.
Stoltzfus, Michael, 1965- editor.
ISBN 9780230339484
0230339484