Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters
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...
| Summary: | 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 ofhealing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to oppression, rema |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (206 p) |
| ISBN: | 0199590095 |