Loving Our Own Bones
Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
Boston : Beacon Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 276 pages ; 24 cm
"A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Claiming disability -- Grappling with the Bible: gender, disability, and God -- Hiddenness and visibility: passing and presenting as disabled -- Ableism: the social-political dimension of disability -- Priestly blemishes: talking back to the Bible's ideal bodies -- Moses: portrait of a disabled prophet -- The land you cannot enter: longing, loss, and other inaccessible terrain -- The perils of healing -- Isaac's blindness: the complexity of trust -- Jacob and the angel: wheels, wings, and the brilliance of disability difference -- The politics of beauty: disability and desire -- The radical practice of rest: Shabbat values and disability justice -- God on wheels: disability theology.
Subjects:
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Disability studies.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Disability studies.
ISBN:
9780807006757
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Bel | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-264) and index.