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Meeting Program Units

2008 International Meeting

Auckland, New Zealand

Meeting Begins7/6/2008
Meeting Ends7/11/2008

Call for Papers Opens: 9/1/2007
Call for Papers Closes: 2/1/2008

Requirements for Participation

Bible in the Pacific


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Proposals are welcome on any aspect of the spread and use of the Bible in the Pacific Islands and aboriginal Australia. The following topics are of special interest: indigenous interpretation and appropriation of the Bible, collaboration and resistance in biblical translations, constructing the "native" with help from the Bible, the Bible as a component of imperialism, and teaching the Bible in Pacific contexts.

Program Unit Chairs

Steven J. Friesen
Charles William Miller

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