- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Spirit and the politics of disablement (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Spirit and the politics of disablement (Online)
- Subject
- Church work with people with disabilities
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-246) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction: telling it slant -- The fear of falling -- Monstrosity, miracle, and mission : religion and the politics of disablement -- Medicine shows : humanitarianism, healing, and the physics of spirit -- Putting my foot (prosthesis, crutches, phantom) down : technology as transcendence -- Conspicuous compassion : race, "disability," and salvific imperialism -- A Crip nation -- Rumor mills : spiritual practice in the Crip nation -- "A cripple on this bridge" : thinking difference, thinking differently -- Never quite herself again : Frida Kahlo's doctrine of creation -- Wisdom to make the world go on.
- LCCN
- 2007027496
- OCLC
- ssj0001752955
- Author
Betcher, Sharon V., 1956-
- Title
Spirit and the politics of disablement [electronic resource] / Sharon V. Betcher.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-246) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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