De-Ableizing Religion and Disability

Survival, Resistance, Flourishing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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De-Ableizing Religion and Disability gathers new scholarship engaging both critical disability studies frameworks and the field of religious studies. In adopting decolonizing stances, authors engage a variety of global religious contexts to interrogate and identify new avenues at the intersection of disability and religion.The book explores the themes of survival, resistance, and flourishing as persons with disabilities in relation to religion across a diversity of contexts. Part 1 examines lived experiences including Black disabled Americans’ stories, religious trauma frameworks in Canada, the impact of war and colonialism on Buddhist empowerment discourse in Sri Lanka, gender fluid mediums in Vietnamese Mother Goddess religion, and ableism among food pantries. Part 2 seeks to de-ableize readings of scripture including comparative Qur’anic and Christian healing narratives and their implications for professional practice, reading Hebrew and Christian scriptures through the lens of Mad Studies, and debilitating violence in gospel narratives. Part 3 interrogates methods in religious studies by examining the material and corporeal study of religion (MCSR) in relation to special needs ministries, ambiguities of the DSM-V and “religious delusion,” disability and faith in the writings of Frederick Douglass’s, and a call to more fully integrate disability studies with Black religious studies.This cutting-edge volume will enrich the understanding of the complex relationship between disability and religion for scholars, researchers, and those seeking justice and flourishing for persons with disabilities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-27
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:374
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032887937

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Heike Peckruhn teaches religion and theology at the intersection of disability, race, nationality, and gender and sexual identity as Associate Professor at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA. She is a biracial immigrant from rural Germany and enjoys gardening and woodworking.Kirk VanGilder, Ph.D. is the Professor of Religion at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a bilingual liberal arts institution designed for deaf and hard of hearing students. He is also an ordained Elder in the Baltimore Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction Part I. De-ableizing Experiences 2. Black, Disabled, Visible: Exploring the Stories and Rituals of Black Disabled Folks 3. Disabled by Religion: The Impact of C-PTSD and Religious Trauma on Disabled Persons in Canada 4. Conditional Empowerments: Disability, Psychology, and Buddhist Meditation in Global and Sri Lankan Contexts 5. Visualising spiritual disability as resistance against the stigma on gender fluidity 6. “As Much as Each of You Needs” (Exodus 16:16): Disability and food justice Part II. De-ableizing Texts 7. Introducing Disability Studies and the Qur’an 8. Barriers to Access, Ambiguity of Cure: A Comparative Theological and Praxis-Oriented Exploration of Disability through Gospel and Qur’anic Narratives 9. I-Shu and Embodiment 10. Truly (?), Madly, Deeply: Mad Studies and Scriptural Traditions 11. Which Bodies Matter: Empire and Debilitation Part III. De-ableizing Fields Of Inquiry 12. Towards a Crip Study of Religions 13. What Are Religious Delusions? A Challenge at the Intersection of Belief and Mental Illness 14. More than Metaphor: disability and faith in the thought of Frederick Douglass 15. Addressing the Real Problem: Black Theological and Africana Spiritual Responses to Ableism