distinguished professor emeritus, University of Illinois Chicago - Lennard J. Davis
"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."
coauthor of At the Gates: Disability, Justice and the Churches - Naomi Lawson Jacobs
"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."
cofounder and codirector, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) - Mary E. Hunt Mary E. Hunt
"'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."
