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Spirit and the politics of disablement

Sharon V. Betcher
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Introduction: Telling It Slant (page 1)
  • Part I
    • Chapter 1: The Fear of Falling (page 25)
    • Chapter 2: Monstrosity, Miracle, and Mission: Religion and the Politics of Disablement (page 48)
    • Chapter 3: Medicine Shows: Humanitarianism, Healing, and the Physics of Spirit (page 68)
    • Chapter 4: Putting My Foot (Prosthesis, Crutches, Phantom) Down: Technology as Transcendence (page 90)
    • Chapter 5: Conspicuous Compassion: Race, "Disability," and Salvific Imperialism (page 105)
  • Part II
    • Chapter 6: A Crip Nation (page 122)
    • Chapter 7: Rumor Mills: Spiritual Practice in the Crip Nation (page 139)
    • Chapter 8: "A Cripple on this Bridge": Thinking Difference, Thinking Differently (page 159)
    • Chapter 9: Never Quite Herself Again: Frida Kahlo's Doctrine of Creation (page 181)
    • Chapter 10: Wisdom to Make the World Go On (page 194)
  • Endnotes (page 206)
  • Index (page 247)
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Published: c2007
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780800662196 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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