Engaging Scripture through the senses has epistemological consequences

Evidence

My concern is primarily with a conceptual question: What were the epistemological implications of the different ways that varieties of Christians and freethinkers engaged with the Scriptures through their senses? (Discounting, suppressing, marginalizing one or more of the senses are also, of course, ways of engaging with its materiality.) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 187

Categorization

• DEFINE: Asad’s reframing: even suppressing the senses is a way of engaging scriptural materiality, which sets up his relational (not oppositional) account of secular and religious.