Selected Bibliography on Theology and Disability
Nancy Eiesland
This bibliography is weighted toward physical disability, though developmental disability is addressed.
Avalos, Hector
1995 Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece,
Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
Bishop, Marilyn E.
1994 Religion and Disability: Essays in Scripture, Theology, and Ethics. Kansas City: Sheed
and Ward.
Browne, Susan, Debra Connors, and Nanci Stern, eds.
1985 With the Power of each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology. Pittsburgh: Cleis
Press.
Cooper, Burton
1992 "The Disabled God," Theology Today 49(2):173-82.
DeVries, Dawn
1994 "Creation, Handicapism and the Community of Differing Abilities," in Rebecca S. Chopp
and Mark L. Taylor. Reconstructing Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Disability Studies Quarterly
1995 Religion, Spirituality, and Disability Issue. Disability Studies Quarterly 15(3).
Eiesland, Nancy
1994 The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon.
Foley, Edward
1994 Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access: New Paradigms for Sacramental
Encounters. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.
Fontaine, Carole
1995 "Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: A Feminist Perspective" in Athalya Brenner, ed.
Feminist Companion to the New Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Govig, Stewart
1989 Strong at the Broken Places: Persons with Disabilities and the Church. Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox Press.
Ingstad, Benedicte
1995 "Mpho ya Modimo--A Gift from God: Perspectives on 'Attitudes' toward Disabled
Persons" Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte, eds. Disability and Culture.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lane, Nancy
1993 "Healing Bodies and Victimization of Persons: Issues of Faith-healing for Persons with
Disabilities." The Disability Rag Resource 14(3):11-13.
Mairs, Nancy
1993 Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith and Renewal. Boston: Beacon Press.
Miles, M.
1995 "Disability in an Eastern Religious Context: Historical Perspectives." Disability and
Society 10:49-69.
National Organization on Disability
1994 That All May Worship: An Interfaith Welcome to People with Disabilities. Washington,
D.C.: National Organization on Disability
1994 Loving Justice: The ADA and the Religious Community. Washington, D.C.: National
Organization on Disability.
Ninomiya, A.H.
1986 "Japanese Attitudes towards Disabled People: Religious Aspect." Japanese Christian
Quarterly 52:202-206.
Orsi, Robert
1994 "'Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple?': The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth-Century
American Catholicism." The South Atlantic Quarterly 93(3): 548-590.
Pailin, David
1992 A Gentle Touch: From a Theology of Handicap to a Theology of Human Being. London:
SPCK.
Ransom, Judy Griffith
1994 The Courage to Care: Seven Congregations are Transformed by Reaching Out to Families
with Disabilities. Nashville: Upper Room Books.
Roundtable on "Women with Disabilities: A Challenge to Feminist Theology,"
1994 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 10(2).
Webb-Mitchell, Brett.
1994 God Plays Piano, Too: The Spiritual Lives of Disabled Children. New York:
Crossroads.
1994 Unexpected Guests at God's Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the
Church. New York: Crossroads.
Whyte, Susan Reynolds
1995 "Disability between Discourse and Experience" in Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds
Whyte, eds. Disability and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wilke, Harold H.
1980 Creating a Caring Congregation: Guidelines for Ministering with the Handicapped.
Nashville: Abingdon.
Young, Frances
1990 Face to Face: A Narrative Essay in the Theology of Suffering. Edinburgh: T. & T.
Clark.
Prepared by: Nancy L. Eiesland, Candler School of Theology (October 1995)
