Religious Attitudes towards Disability

The World Report on Disability (2011) defines disability as “an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions, denoting the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual's contextual factors (environmental and personal factors)” (World Health Organization, 2011). Disability is perceived as ‘a result of sin’ (Bowers, 2004) or as ‘must be healed’ (Möller, 2012) in several countries. Since many people with disabilities encounter barriers and inequalities in society (WHO, 2011), the level of participation of persons with…