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Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole / Julia Watts Belser.

by Belser, Julia Watts, 1978- author.

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Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]

Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.

Disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Disability studies.

9780807006757 (hardcover) :

0807006750 (hardcover)

276 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots we almost forget their sources... but open the Bible and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters; Isaac is blind; Jesus heals the sick, the paralyzed, and the possessed. Yet religious leaders and cultural commentators treat disability as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity, or a challenge to be overcome. Belser-- herself a queer disabled Jewish feminist-- uses fresh readings of familiar biblical stories to demonstrate how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. -- adapted from jacket

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