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Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole
Title:
Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole
Author:
Belser, Julia Watts, 1978- author.
ISBN:
9780807006757
Physical Description:
276 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Abstract:
"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.