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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

African Biblical Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 1. Narratology and Orality in African Biblical Hermeneutics How can biblical interpretation in Africa and about Africa be informed by orality and narrotology? Laying emphasis on methodological presuppositions about orality and narratology, techniques and technologies of orality, and the socio-ethical and cultural implications of orality and narratology, this section invites papers that address and demonstrate the answer to the opening question. 2. Navigating “Concepts of Marriage in Africa” in the context of African Biblical Hermeneutics The apparent normativity of (heterosexual) marriage in many an African context cannot be disputed. Various notions of marriage typify the African landscape in its variety. Among these were/are arranged monogamous heterosexual unions, polygynous and levirate marriages and “marriages to families.” In their attempt to create ethically sound biblical hermeneutics on African marriage, how may African biblical hermeneuticians navigate such an exercise? 3. Notions of Healing and Wellness in African Biblical Hermeneutics (ABH) This section invites papers on healing and wellness in Africa and about Africa, with emphases on holistic healing and wellness for individual and communal bodies. Of particular interest would be papers that foreground and explore the intersections of traditional and modern medicine; cultural assumptions and taboos around sickness, healing, and wellness; and ritual and embodied practices on healing and wellness in the context of ABH 4. Celebrating the Scholarship of Professor Justin Ukpong In African Biblical Hermeneutics (ABH), the phrase “inculturation hermeneutics” is mostly, if not always, linked to the name of Justin Ukpong, the late Nigerian New Testament scholar. In this session, we invite papers which will foreground the significance of Ukpong’s inculturation hermeneutics for the broader ABH, and papers engaging his scholarship widely.

Program Unit Chairs

Kenneth Ngwa
Madipoane J. Masenya

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