{"product_id":"sense-and-stigma-in-the-gospels-9780199590094","title":"Sense and Stigma in the Gospels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 ''othe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise J. Lawrence's Sense and Stigma is a creative piece of scholarship situated at the disciplinary crossroads of ethnography, cross-cultural sensory anthropology, disability studies, and biblical studies...scholars of religion havemuch to gain from Lawrence's provocative readings of familiar Gospel narratives, and this book will undoubtedly inspire further efforts toward the important task of reimagining the analysis of sensorial epistemologies at work in biblical texts. * Andrew M. Langford, The Journal of Religion *\u003cbr\u003ethis book is a very important contribution to what can be called sensory criticism or corporeal criticism in biblical studies that focuses on the embodied human experience in biblical texts. This book should be read by anyone interested in how sense is both expressed and constructed by biblical authors and by biblical scholars. * Hector Avalos, Biblical Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Sense and Stigma ; 1.  Looking Through a Glass Darkly: Sensing Disabilities of Biblical Studies ; 2. Blind Spots and Metaphors: Refiguring Sightless Characters in the Gospels ; 3. Sounding Out a  deaf mute : Mark 7:31 37 as Deaf World Performance ; 4. The Stench of Untouchability: Sensory Tactics of a Leper, Legion and Leaky     Woman ; 5. Sense, Seizure and Illness Narratives: The Case of an  Epileptic \/ Demon-Possessed Boy ; Conclusion:  Sensory-Disabled  Characters Refiguring God ; Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767041458519,"sku":"9780199590094","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sense-and-stigma-in-the-gospels-9780199590094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}