Love Is Not a Feeling: Faith and Disability in the Context of Poverty

A self-help group of mothers with children having a mental handicap, living in a poor area of South Delhi, India, met regularly with the author to discuss the role played by their different religious faiths, beliefs and practices in coping with the diagnosis of their children's impairments, and...

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Main Author: Balasundaram, Pramila (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2007
In: Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2007, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 15-22
Further subjects:B Belief
B mental handicap
B Buddhist
B Ritual
B Hindus
B Mothers
B Muslim
B India
B Disability
B Christian
B Social Stigma
B Children
B self-help group
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