Disrupting Stories and Images of Church

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Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Allen G. Jorgenson, Laura MacGregor, Thomas E. Reynolds, Allen G Jorgenson, Laura Macgregor, Thomas E Reynolds

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How might someone’s disability shape not only their view of God, but of the church? Turning to the lived experiences of people with disabilities and caregivers for children with disabilities, this book provides theological reflections on their images of the church. Attuning to these often ignored voices provides thought-provoking insights into what the church and other religious communities can do and have failed to do for and alongside its disabled members and their caregivers. Embracing disability theology enables a generative image of faith communities built on various forms of spiritual care. Over three broad sections (Disabling Images of the Church, Themes in Healing the Church with Disabilities, and Intercultural Insights for Disability Theology), theologians explore the themes and images emerging from alternative views of the church and other religious communities presented by disability studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666973013

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Acknowledgements Introduction – Section One: Themes in Healing the Church with Disabilities Chapter One: Beyond Saints and Superheroes: A Phenomenological Study of the Spiritual Care Needs of Parents Raising Children with Disabilities Chapter Two: A Place to Belong – Chapter Three: Cripping Space in the Sacraments – Chapter Four:Beyond Transactional Ministry: Praying and Advocating with Jesus toward Justice– Chapter Five:A Lens of Unproductivity: A Theological Hermeneutic for Disability Justice – Chapter Six:Three Mothers, Three Stories: Spiritual Abuse, Theodicies, Disability, and Parenting: – Chapter Seven: The Disabled and Eschatological Church – Section Two: Disabling Images of the Church Chapter Eight: The Church as Kin (Cruise) Ship– Chapter Nine:Radical Re-Visioning Through Mad Studies: Advancing Mad-Justice in Faith Communities – Chapter Ten: Negotiating Disclosure: To Mask or Not to Mask? – Chapter Eleven:The Exclusionary Circle: Analysis and Response – Chapter Twelve: The Church as a Rooted Tree, Or: Stayed on Jesus! A Partially-Preached Sermon – Chapter Thirteen:Days of Fullness: Warm Bread as a Metaphor for Churches that Include People with Developmental Disabilities – Section Three: Interreligious Insights for Disability Theology Chapter Fourteen: The Intersections of Faith, Culture and Disability: A Muslim-Canadian Perspective – Chapter Fifteen: Moments of Spirit: Access and Inclusion in Jewish Living – Chapter Sixteen: Navigating the Two Buddhist Perspectives on Disability – Chapter Seventeen: A Sacred Bond: Indigenous Reflections on Disability, Love, and the Church – Chapter Eighteen: The Sacred Body: Exploring the Theologies of Difference in Islam –

Disrupting Stories and Images of the Church is a wonderful collection of essays written by people with disabilities and/or family members and close colleagues who are totally honest about the highs and lows of their faith journeys and experiences in congregations. It is, essentially, an “invocation:” a plea and prayer to the people of God to see, accept, and include people with both their differences and similarities. They engross, illuminate, and compel both understanding and imagination, embodying the mantra of the current disability movement: “Nothing about me without me,” pointing paths toward a new us.