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While autism is gaining increasing attention as an important subject of theological inquiry, the maternal experience of caring for a child with autism has had less attention. Traversing issues of gender, embodiment, disability and motherhood, this book explores the distinctness of mothering within the context of autism, examining how theology currently responds to the challenges this lived experience presents. Weaving together an honest reflection on her own experience with analysis of contemporary theological works on disability and motherhood, the book reflects on mothering, and especially mothering of autistic children, as a unique site of struggle and resistance.

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This book constructs its theological reflections out of experiences of mothering a child with autism. These are painful, relentlessly challenging, and also contain revelatory insight and intense beauty. Campbell's profound work knots life narratives into a theology of struggle that speak to the distinctive challenges of mothering in the context of autism. It also speaks gracefully to those many other contexts in which passionate loving meets unresolvable circumstances and endures. Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK Poignant and deeply considered, Eilidh Campbell's work offers important and challenging insights for disability theology. Bold scholarship is interspersed with scenes from own life and personal experience. Campbell does not retreat from the tensions and complexities of mothering a child with autism, instead bringing to light the need for unresolved theologies that pay attention to everyday experience. In doing so, Campbell reveals herself as a courageous, essential, and field-defining new voice. This book will deepen and extend our understandings of disability theologies, and it deserves to be read widely. Katie Cross, Aberdeen University, UK

This book constructs its theological reflections out of experiences of mothering a child with autism. These are painful, relentlessly challenging, and also contain revelatory insight and intense beauty. Campbell's profound work knots life narratives into a theology of struggle that speak to the distinctive challenges of mothering in the context of autism. It also speaks gracefully to those many other contexts in which passionate loving meets unresolvable circumstances and endures. Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK Poignant and deeply considered, Eilidh Campbell's work offers important and challenging insights for disability theology. Bold scholarship is interspersed with scenes from own life and personal experience. Campbell does not retreat from the tensions and complexities of mothering a child with autism, instead bringing to light the need for unresolved theologies that pay attention to everyday experience. In doing so, Campbell reveals herself as a courageous, essential, and field-defining new voice. This book will deepen and extend our understandings of disability theologies, and it deserves to be read widely. Katie Cross, Aberdeen University, UK

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Dr Eilidh Campbell is a feminist practical theologian whose research centres around trauma and suffering, and disability and mental health. She is mother to a son Micah, who inspires this work.

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