1st Edition
De-Ableizing Religion and Disability Survival, Resistance, Flourishing
1. Introduction - Heike Peckruhn and Kirk VanGilder
Part I. De-ableizing Experiences
2. Black, Disabled, Visible: Exploring the Stories and Rituals of Black Disabled Folks - Robert Monson
3. Disabled by Religion: The Impact of C-PTSD and Religious Trauma on Disabled Persons in Canada - Jacqueline Giesbrecht
4. Conditional Empowerments: Disability, Psychology, and Buddhist Meditation in Global and Sri Lankan Contexts - Jessica A. Albrecht
5. Visualising spiritual disability as resistance against the stigma on gender fluidity - Tran Thi Thuy Binh
6. “As Much as Each of You Needs” (Exodus 16:16): Disability and food justice - Courtney Wilder
Part II. De-ableizing Texts
7. Introducing Disability Studies and the Qur’an - Halla Attallah
8. Barriers to Access, Ambiguity of Cure: A Comparative Theological and Praxis-Oriented Exploration of Disability through Gospel and Qur’anic Narratives - Kimberly E. Oaks Takacs and Axel M. Oaks Takacs
9. I-Shu and Embodiment - David Schones
10. Truly (?), Madly, Deeply: Mad Studies and Scriptural Traditions - Kirsty Jones and Hannah Roussel
11. Which Bodies Matter: Empire and Debilitation - Miriam Spies
Part III. De-ableizing Fields Of Inquiry
12. Towards a Crip Study of Religions - Martha Gabriela Sanchez-Martinez
13. What Are Religious Delusions? A Challenge at the Intersection of Belief and Mental Illness - Brittany Acors
14. More than Metaphor: disability and faith in the thought of Frederick Douglass - Calli Micale
15. Addressing the Real Problem: Black Theological and Africana Spiritual Responses to Ableism - Jonathan Chism
Biography
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.
