Bibliograph

Loving our own bones, disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole, Julia Watts Belser

Type

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Loving our own bones, disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole, Julia Watts Belser

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Loving our own bones

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1360309198

Responsibility statement

Julia Watts Belser

Sub title

disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole

Summary

"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

Table Of 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

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