{"product_id":"sense-and-stigma-in-the-gospels-depictions-of-sensory-disabled-characters-9780199590094","title":"Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters","description":"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\u003cbr\u003ecommentary 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\u003cbr\u003eoppression, remain largely unaddressed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003einteractions. 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\u003cbr\u003edifference 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise J. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.37w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199590094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise J. Lawrence \u003c\/strong\u003eis Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Exeter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934234820723,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_28ac091f-f33e-4ebf-8df9-8c3e32b6d394.jpg?v=1647878350","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sense-and-stigma-in-the-gospels-depictions-of-sensory-disabled-characters-9780199590094","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}