Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole / Julia Watts Belser.
| Author/creator | Belser, Julia Watts, 1978- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023] |
| Description | 276 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Belser, Julia Watts, 1978- Loving our own bones Boston : Beacon Press, [2023] 9780807006764 |
| LCCN | 2023013079 |
| ISBN | 9780807006757 |
| ISBN | 0807006750 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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