Christian Sign Language Books
Many books are available, and most are focused on signed English translations instead of ASL.Children and Teens
- Ann Elizabeth Signs With Love
- Jesus Loves Me!: Scriptures and Songs in Sign Language (Signing God's Word)
- More Sign & Say: Bible Verses for Children
- Sign & Say: Bible Verses for Children
- Signing at Church (signed English)
- Signing at Sunday School
- Signs of Faith: Bible Verses for Preteens and Youth
- Faith Speaks!: Expressing God's Word In Sign Language (Signing God's Word)
- Hymns for Signing (interpreter oriented)
- Religious Signing : A Comprehensive Guide For All Faiths
- With Heart and Hands and Voices: Songs With Sign Language for Sunday School, Choir, and Worship
- Signing the Scriptures: A Starting Point for Interpreting the Sunday Readings for the Deaf (interpreter-oriented)
Christian Sign Language Videos
DeafMissions.com produces and sells religious sign language materials such as The Bible: ASL Translation. ASLonDVD.com has a series of signed prayers and hymns, A Praising Spirit. Additional religious video materials are available from vendors of deaf and hard of hearing products:- Forgiven (with Mark Mitchum, who is also in other religious video materials)
- Religious Signs (DVD)
- Religious Signs Vocabulary (interpreter-oriented)
- In Sign Language Series (covers Amazing Grace, God Bless America, The Lord's Prayer, and more).
- Lift Up Holy Hands (more church songs, including Praise the Name of Jesus, We Three Kings, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and several more).
Religious Sign Dictionaries Online
A few religious sign language dictionaries are available online:- DeafMissions has an animated dictionary of religious signs online. Signs are demonstrated in cartoons, with individual signs and phrases.
- ASLPro.com also has a religious sign dictionary online with video clips.
Signed Bible Stories
The producers of ASLPro.com sent me an e-mail about ASLBible.com, and provided this description:"We provide free resources in the form of rich visual multimedia including signed stories from the Old and New Testaments, signed poetry, signed music, and just for fun activities - all free to the user. In addition, we are currently adding 3D Bible stories to the site that are short videos from the Bible and modern day parables related to Bible themes. ASLBible.com is being created as a shared experience for both the Deaf and the hearing. Our 3D Bible stories include closed captioning that can be enjoyed by both categories of users, and would be extremely helpful to families in a homeschooling environment."
Sign Language in Judaism
About.com has an article, Signs of Chanukah, that points to some sign language resources for Judaism.Signs Used by Muslims
I have not been able to locate any religious sign language materials specifically for Muslims. For example, I do not know if any ASL translation of the Koran exists in video or book form. My research showed that hearing impaired American Muslims are using ASL, not Arabic sign language, for learning the Koran and attending interpreted services at mosques. In Europe, the organization Effatha composed a list of Islamic sign language borrowed from Morocco, for Dutch, Muslim parents.
Sources:
The Deaf Muslim Experience: Education and Islam, http://edf3.gallaudet.edu/diversity/BGG/!ISLAM/Deafan~1.htm, accessed 04/05/08
Disability World, accessed 04/05/08
