De-Ableizing Religion and Disability: Survival, Resistance, Flourishing

De-Ableizing Religion and Disability gathers new scholarship engaging both critical disability studies frameworks and the field of religious studies.In adopting decolonizing stances, authors engage a variety of global religious contexts to interrogate and identify new avenues at the intersection of disability and religion. The book explores the themes of survival, resistance, and flourishing as persons with disabilities in relation to religion across a diversity of contexts.Part 1 examines lived experiences including Black disabled Americans’ stories, religious trauma frameworks in Canada, the impact of war and colonialism on Buddhist empowerment discourse in Sri Lanka, gender fluid mediums in Vietnamese Mother Goddess religion, and ableism among food pantries.Part 2 seeks to de-ableize readings of scripture including comparative Qur’anic and Christian healing narratives and their implications for professional practice, reading Hebrew and Christian scriptures through the lens of Mad St