HON 201-A: Theology and Disability: Home

" Each chapter introduces a specific religious tradition in a manner that offers innovative approaches to familiar themes in contemporary debates about religion and disability, including personhood, autonomy, community, ability, transcendence, morality, practice, the interpretation of texts, and conditioned claims regarding the normal human body or mind.By portraying varied and complex perspectives on the intersection of religion and disability, this volume demonstrates that religious teachings and practices across the globe help establish cultural constructions of normalcy. The volume also interrogates the constructive role religion plays in determining expectations for human physical and mental behavior and in establishing standards for measuring conventional health and well-being. Disability and World Religions thus offers a respectful exploration of global faith traditions and cultivates creative ways to respond to the fields of both religious and disability studies". - book flap.

This book " is the first comprehensive commentary on the Bible from the perspective of disability. The BDC examines how the Bible constructs or reflects human wholeness, impairment, and disability in all their expressions. Biblical texts do envision the ideal body, but they also present visions of the body that deviate from this ideal, whether physically or through cognitive impairments or mental illness. The BDC engages the full range of these depictions of body and mind, exploring their meaning through close readings and comparative analysis. The BDC enshrines the distinctive interpretive imagination required to span the worlds of biblical studies and disability studies. Each of the fourteen contributors has worked at this intersection; and through their combined expertise, the very best of both biblical studies and disability studies culminates in detailed textual work of description, interpretation, and application to provide a synthetic and synoptic whole. The result is a close reading of the Bible that gives long-overdue attention to the fullness of human identity narrated in the Scriptures"

"Description: Anticipating Down syndrome and disability. Introduction : narrating and imagining Down syndrome and disability -- The blind, the deaf, and the lame : biblical and historical trajectories -- Down syndrome and disability in the modern world. Medicalizing Down syndrome : disability in the world of modern science -- Deconstructing and reconstructing disability : late modern discourses -- Disability in context : feminist, cultural, and world religious perspectives -- Reimagining and renewing theology in late modernity : enabling a disabled world. Reimagining the doctrines of creation, providence, and the imago Dei : rehabilitating Down syndrome and disability -- Renewing ecclesiology : Down syndrome, disability, and the community of those being redeemed -- Rethinking soteriology : on saving Down syndrome and disability -- Resurrecting Down syndrome and disability : heaven and the healing of the world. "

"Discusses how the way Biblical texts are interpreted in regard to people with disabilities, and challenges churches to become more inclusive."