Bible and Bedlam: madness, sanism, and New Testament interpretation
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bible and Bedlam -- Defining Madness -- Madness as Deviance -- Madness as Protest -- Madness as Resistance to Biomedical/Psychiatric or Pathological Models -- Mad Studies -- Space, Embodiment and Performance -- Overview of...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bible and Bedlam -- Defining Madness -- Madness as Deviance -- Madness as Protest -- Madness as Resistance to Biomedical/Psychiatric or Pathological Models -- Mad Studies -- Space, Embodiment and Performance -- Overview of Book -- Chapter 1 Ivory Towers and the Banishment of Bedlam: Reason, Right Minds and Sane Privilege in Biblical Studies -- Reason, Right Minds and Ivory Towers: Biblical Studies as a 'Sane[ist?]' Discipline -- Pathologizing Discourses and Scholarship -- Pathologizing Discourses and Biblical Characters -- Sane Privilege in Biblical Studies -- Chapter 2 The Curious Incident of a Jew in the Night-Time: Autistry and an Encounter with Nicodemus -- Nicodemus ... On the Spectrum? -- 'Alone' and 'by Night': Autistry, Isolation and Metaphors of Identity -- 'Entering the Womb a Second Time': Autistry and Literalism -- 'The Curious Incident of a Jew in the Night-Time': Autistry and Interpretation -- Chapter 3 'Ex-centric' Women: Intersecting Marginalities and the Madness Narratives of Bessie Head, a Canaanite Woman and Pyth -- Bessie Head's A Question of Power: An Africana Madness Narrative -- Wounding, Voice and Vocality -- Wounding, Voice and Vocality: The Canaanite Woman (Mt. 15:21-28) -- Wounding, Voice and Vocality: The Pythian Slave Girl (Acts 16:16-21) -- Ex-centric Women -- Chapter 4 Gatekeeping the Madness of Jesus and Paul:: Negotiating Mythologies of Madness in an Age of Neoliberalism -- Cultural Epistemes of Madness -- Gatekeeping the Madness of Jesus -- Jesus and Mythologies of Madness in a Neoliberal Age -- Gatekeeping the Madness of Paul -- Paul and Positive Mythologies of Madness -- Negotiating Mythologies of Madness -- Chapter 5 Madness, the Affect Alien and the Gospel of Mark: Critically Probing a Happiness Turn in Biblical Studies A Happiness Turn -- [Un]Happiness Archives -- Encountering [Un]Happiness Archives -- Mad Grief and Distress, and the Gospel of Mark -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Beyond Bedlam? Keeping Open[ing] Minds in Biblical Interpretation -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (197 pages) |
| ISBN: | 056765754X |