Human Disability and the Service of God: Reassessing Religious Practice

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Toward a spirituality of inclusiveness / Don E. Saliers -- Disability and liturgy in ancient and modern religious traditions / Hector Avalos -- Visualizing the perfect cult: the priestly rationale for exclusion / Sarah J. Melcher -- Reinterpreting the healing narratives / Colleen C. Grant -- "Those who are blind see": some New Testament uses of impairment, inability, and paradox / Simon Horne. Liberate yourself by accepting one another / Jürgen Moltmann -- Redeemed bodies: fullness of life / Barbara A.B. Patterson -- Through glasses darkly: discovering a liturgical place / Jan B. Robitscher -- Tradition, folklore, and disability: a heritage of inclusion / Adele B. McCollum -- "We have this ministry": ordained ministers who are physically disabled / Albert Herzog. Barriers and bridges: relating the disability rights movement and religious organizations / Nancy L. Eiesland -- To make a wounded wholeness: disability and liturgy in an African American context / Harold Dean Trulear -- Risking redemption: a case study in HIV/AIDS and the healing of Christian liturgy / Vereene Parnell -- Crafting Christians into the gestures of the body of Christ / Brett Webb-Mitchell -- Disabling the lie: prayers of truth and transformation / Helen Betenbaugh and Marjorie Procter-Smith.