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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

Bible and Cultural Studies


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are collaborating with other groups on four sessions this year. 1. We invite papers related to the intersection of disability studies and the Bible that explore (but are not limited to) topics such as the following: colonial representations of the body, intersections of disability, gender, class and race; economic and sociopolitical perspectives; disability, illness and sacred texts; and/or explores how the Bible has been used to codify and justify discrimination of the disabled in recent history, and how may the Bible be used to resist discrimination/violence against the disabled. 2. We invite papers related to the intersection of critical race theory and the Bible. Specifically, we are interested in papers that address some of these questions: how has the Bible been used to codify and justify racial divisions and conflicts in recent history, how may the Bible be used to resist modern racial discrimination/violence, and what are creative intersections/interventions between biblical hermeneutics and critical race theory regarding identity construction? Papers emphasizing an attention to conflict, division, peace, and reconciliation will receive special attention. 3. "Immigration Detention and Mass Incarceration in the New South.” Papers should approach the biblical theme of the captive body from the broad span of contemporary critical theories. We are especially looking for papers that engage in a parallel reading with prisoners in the Bible and cultural productions by those imprisoned. Also welcomed are papers that historicize prison or immigrant readers of the Bible in order to reveal a contrapuntal hermeneutic, tactics of resistance, modes of self-fashioning, and figurations of freedom. 4. We are also working with Contextual Biblical Interpretation in an open call on contextual methodologies; see their call for more information.

Program Unit Chairs

Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Lynne St. Clair Darden

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