De-Ableizing Religion and Disability

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 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.

• 1. Introduction Part I. De-ableizing Experiences 2. Black, Disabled, Visible: Exploring the Stories and Rituals of Black Disabled Folks 3. Disabled by Religion: The Impact of C-PTSD and Religious Trauma on Disabled Persons in Canada 4. Conditional Empowerments: Disability, Psychology, and Buddhist Meditation in Global and Sri Lankan Contexts 5. Visualising spiritual disability as resistance against the stigma on gender fluidity 6. “As Much as Each of You Needs” (Exodus 16:16): Disability and food justice Part II. De-ableizing Texts 7. Introducing Disability Studies and the Qur’an 8. Barriers to Access, Ambiguity of Cure: A Comparative Theological and Praxis-Oriented Exploration of Disability through Gospel and Qur’anic Narratives 9. I-Shu and Embodiment 10. Truly (?), Madly, Deeply: Mad Studies and Scriptural Traditions 11. Which Bodies Matter: Empire and Debilitation Part III. De-ableizing Fields Of Inquiry 12. Towards a Crip Study of Religions 13. What Are Religious Delusions? A Challenge at the Intersection of Belief and Mental Illness 14. More than Metaphor: disability and faith in the thought of Frederick Douglass 15. Addressing the Real Problem: Black Theological and Africana Spiritual Responses to Ableism