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""'Accessible love' is Darla Schumm's brilliant proposal for dismantling ableism. Religious people commonly construct monumental barriers to access, inclusion, and equity in their teachings and architecture. Careful, candid, comprehensive analysis grounded in interviews with disabled people opens new paths. This deftly written book is theology at its most useful.""--Mary E. Hunt ""cofounder and codirector, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)""

""'Accessible love' is Darla Schumm's brilliant proposal for dismantling ableism. Religious people commonly construct monumental barriers to access, inclusion, and equity in their teachings and architecture. Careful, candid, comprehensive analysis grounded in interviews with disabled people opens new paths. This deftly written book is theology at its most useful.""--Mary E. Hunt ""cofounder and codirector, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)"" ""Healing Ableism is a vital contribution to the changing conversation on disability in religious contexts. Through in-depth qualitative research with disabled people from a range of religious traditions, Schumm reflects on ableism and disability (in)justice in religious communities, weaving interviewees' voices together with illuminating perspectives from critical disability theory. The book is a powerful call to religious practitioners--and all of us--to rage against ableism in our communities, transforming them together through love.""--Naomi Lawson Jacobs ""coauthor of At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches"" ""In Healing Ableism, Schumm invites us into a fascinating conversation about the complex interaction between disability and religion. Schumm, acting as alternatively memoirist, teacher, and social scientist, provides an enlightened insider's look at disability and blindness. The book both entertains and informs, providing a needed adjunct to more dryly academic works.""--Lennard J. Davis ""distinguished professor emeritus, University of Illinois Chicago""

""'Accessible love' is Darla Schumm's brilliant proposal for dismantling ableism. Religious people commonly construct monumental barriers to access, inclusion, and equity in their teachings and architecture. Careful, candid, comprehensive analysis grounded in interviews with disabled people opens new paths. This deftly written book is theology at its most useful.""--Mary E. Hunt ""cofounder and codirector, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)"" ""Schumm, who is blind, presents a unique and vital perspective in her latest work. . . . Schumm's book moves the important perspectives of people who are disabled to the forefront, inviting readers to consider that ableism, not one's disability, needs healing."" -- ""The Roanoke Star"" ""Healing Ableism is a vital contribution to the changing conversation on disability in religious contexts. Through in-depth qualitative research with disabled people from a range of religious traditions, Schumm reflects on ableism and disability (in)justice in religious communities, weaving interviewees' voices together with illuminating perspectives from critical disability theory. The book is a powerful call to religious practitioners--and all of us--to rage against ableism in our communities, transforming them together through love.""--Naomi Lawson Jacobs ""coauthor of At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches"" ""In Healing Ableism, Schumm invites us into a fascinating conversation about the complex interaction between disability and religion. Schumm, acting as alternatively memoirist, teacher, and social scientist, provides an enlightened insider's look at disability and blindness. The book both entertains and informs, providing a needed adjunct to more dryly academic works.""--Lennard J. Davis ""distinguished professor emeritus, University of Illinois Chicago""

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DARLA SCHUMM is a disabled author and educator. She is the associate provost for curriculum and faculty engagement at Hollins University, Virginia. Schumm has co-edited four books exploring intersections of disability and the world’s religions, most recently, Disability and World Religions: An Introduction.

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