Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.
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Notes:

• Introduction: telling it slant — The fear of falling — Monstrosity, miracle, and mission : religion and the politics of disablement — Medicine shows : humanitarianism, healing, and the physics of spirit — Putting my foot (prosthesis, crutches, phantom) down : technology as transcendence — Conspicuous compassion : race, disability, and salvific imperialism — A Crip nation — Rumor mills : spiritual practice in the Crip nation — A cripple on this bridge : thinking difference, thinking differently — Never quite herself again : Frida Kahlo’s doctrine of creation — Wisdom to make the world go on.

Subjects:

• Church work with people with disabilities.

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