Mark, mutuality, and mental health
Subtitle: encounters with Jesus
By: by Simon Mainwaring
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies -- number 79; Semeia studies -- no. 79.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781589839847; 9781589839861; 9781589839854
Subjects: Criticism; Mental health; Bible; Biblical teaching; Hermeneutik; Criticism, interpretation; Power (Christian theology); Begegnung; Bibel; Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Dialog
Description: Explores six encounters between Jesus and other characters in the Gospel of Mark via a series of dialogue-based Bible studies with persons with poor mental health. Focusing on mutuality and seeking to re-imagine power relations, this work explores the Gospel of Mark by drawing together power-aware biblical scholarship, postcolonial theory, and the insights of readers with poor mental health who have first-hand experience of social structures of exclusion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Relational dynamics of poor mental health : assessing existing paradigms. Relational dynamics and mental health : tracing the contours of context ; Liberation hermeneutics and poor mental health : resistive theologies at the margins ; Foucault : power and poor mental health ; Conclusion; title: Mutuality : a postcolonial praxis for the relational dynamics of poor mental health. Beyond mutuality as an aspiration : mutuality as a praxis ; Postcolonial praxes : cocreating third space ; Mutuality as a postcolonial praxis of resistance and transformation ; Conclusion; title: Dialogue and difference : mutuality and biblical hermeneutics. Postcolonial biblical criticism : strands of hermeneutical interest ; Difference in colonial relational dynamics : renegotiating the Jesus encounter in Mark ; Reading with difference : dialogical biblical criticism ; Mutuality and Mark : a method for reading with persons with poor mental health ; Conclusion; title: Identity, labels, and resistance : Mark 3:1-6 and 3:19b-35. Mark 3:1-6 ; Mark 3:19b-35 ; Conclusion; title: Negotiating marginal agency : Mark 5:21-43 and 7:24-30. Mark 5:21-43 ; Mark 7:24-30 ; Conclusion; title: Dialogue and mutuality : Mark 5:1-20 and 15:1-5. Mark 5:1-20 ; Mark 15:1-5 ; Conclusion; title: Mutuality and Mark : reflections textual and contextual. Mutuality as a postcolonial praxis : qualities and efficacies within textual relational dynamics ; Mutuality and mark : hermeneutical achievements and limitations.