Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts (Early Christianity and Its Literature, 23) - Softcover

Solevåg, Anna Rebecca

 
9781628372212: Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts (Early Christianity and Its Literature, 23)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1628372214 ISBN 13: 9781628372212
Publisher: SBL Press, 2018

Synopsis

Negotiating the Disabled Body explores how nonnormative bodies are presented in early Christian literature through the lens of disability studies. In a number of case studies, Solevåg shows how early Christians struggled to come to terms with issues relating to body, health, and dis/ability. These efforts to interpret unruly and extraordinary bodies appear in the texts in a multitude of ways, from healing in the gospels to inflicting disability in the Acts of Peter and from theologizing in Paul’s letters to using disability as invective in Papias. Solevåg  uses the concepts of “narrative prosthesis,” gaze and stare, stigma, monster theory, and crip theory to examine early Christian material to reveal the multiple, polyphonous, contradictory ways in which nonnormative bodies appear.

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Publisher
SBL Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1628372214
ISBN 13 
9781628372212
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
206

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