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Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters
Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters
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The senses are used within New Testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience. Likewise, those instances where sensory faculty is perceived to be disabled in some way also become key sites for ideological
commentary and critique. However, often biblical scholarship, itself disabled by eye-centric and textocentric norms, has read sensory-disabled characters as nothing more than inert sites of healing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to
oppression, remain largely unaddressed. In response, Louise J. Lawrence seeks to initiate a variety of interdisciplinary dialogues with disability studies and sensory anthropology in a quest to refigure characters with sensory disabilities featured in the gospels and provide alternative interpretations of their conditions and social
interactions. In each instance the identity of those stigmatised as other (according to particular physiological, social and cultural norms) are recovered by exploring ethnographic accounts which document the stories of those experiencing similar rejection on account of perceived sensory
difference in diverse cross-cultural settings. Through this process these disabled characters are recast as individuals capable of employing certain strategies which destabilize the stigma imposed upon them and tactical performers who can subversively achieve their social goals.
Author: Louise J. Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/24/2013
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.37w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780199590094
commentary and critique. However, often biblical scholarship, itself disabled by eye-centric and textocentric norms, has read sensory-disabled characters as nothing more than inert sites of healing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to
oppression, remain largely unaddressed. In response, Louise J. Lawrence seeks to initiate a variety of interdisciplinary dialogues with disability studies and sensory anthropology in a quest to refigure characters with sensory disabilities featured in the gospels and provide alternative interpretations of their conditions and social
interactions. In each instance the identity of those stigmatised as other (according to particular physiological, social and cultural norms) are recovered by exploring ethnographic accounts which document the stories of those experiencing similar rejection on account of perceived sensory
difference in diverse cross-cultural settings. Through this process these disabled characters are recast as individuals capable of employing certain strategies which destabilize the stigma imposed upon them and tactical performers who can subversively achieve their social goals.
Author: Louise J. Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/24/2013
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.37w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780199590094
About the Author
Louise J. Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Exeter.
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