Bibliography: #5N2NSTT7

key	5N2NSTT7
title	Whatever the Sacrifice: Illness and Authority in the Baha'i Faith
author	Gilman, Priscilla
item type	Book section
publication year	2011
date	2011
publication title	Disability and Religious Diversity : Cross-cultural and Interreligious Perspectives
ISBN	9780230119734 (hardback). 0230119735 (hardback)
abstract note	"This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. "--. "This edited collection critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors incorporate literature and theoretical analysis from the field of disability studies resulting in a comparative text reflecting multicultural, interdisciplinary and inter-religious attitudes and perspectives. The book is appealing to a broad readership including members of the disabled community, scholars and students from the disciplines of religious studies, disability studies and cultural studies, social service and healthcare professionals, and religious practitioners from distinctive traditions. Multiple contributors approach their writing from the perspective of living with some form of disability or chronic illness"--
pages	19-45
publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
place	New York
language	English
manual tags	RELIGION; DISABILITIES; HUMAN BODY
editor	Schumm, Darla Y.; Stoltzfus, Michael
edition	1st ed.

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