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Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters

This is the primary output from a four-year research project that involved first, data collection and fieldwork with ‘sensory disabled’ groups (interviews; contextual bible studies in sign language and audio/touch/Braille formats). A second phase of analysis and critical reflection included extensive cross-disciplinary engagement with disability studies (a complex range of disability arts, performance and autobiographies including d/Deaf world poetry and installation art; Dalit performance and drumming etc.) and sensory anthropology - a field largely unknown in biblical studies. Research time spent at the University of Concordia’s Sensoria Center, a specialist centre for sensory anthropology, in Montreal, Canada, consolidated this approach.