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How Ableism Fuels Racism:
Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church
Lamar Hardwick
Paperback: Brazos, 2024
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“In How Ableism Fuels Racism, Pastor Lamar Hardwick wants us to reread Luke’s account of the post-resurrected Jesus, who chose to come back with the holes in his hands and side and compare that to the images and ideals historically espoused in American Christianity. How did churches come to privilege white, male, abled bodies, despite Jesus’s clear preference for the marginalized and oppressed? This “hierarchy of bodies,” based on the belief that normal bodies are better, does great harm to the Christian message.
For Hardwick, faith is incarnational, a belief that the God of creation works through all bodies, excluding none. God reveals himself in the embodied Jesus and we experience God through our own given bodies. For economic and social reasons, in order to justify and sanitize slavery, black bodies were deemed disabled from our nation’s beginning. Being black was the same thing as being disabled and therefore dehumanized, in more ways than I had ever imagined. ”
– from our review by MaryAnne Hannan
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