Latino/a/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation

Call For Papers: For 2022, we invite papers that address critical times. In his 2014 Presidential Address, Fernando Segovia called for a new paradigm in biblical studies “that would foreground sustained theorization of critical vision and task as well as the global state of affairs” to address “the unique, indeed unprecedented, critical times in which we find ourselves” (“Criticism in Critical Times,” JBL 134 [2015]: 29). In the seven years since Segovia issued this call, the global state of affairs has been upended in ways that in 2014 would have been difficult to imagine. The Covid-19 pandemic foremost comes to mind, but so does the election of political candidates advocating nationalist and xenophobic platforms to the highest seats of government, climate change and its ramifications for current weather patterns and phenomena such as the lingering effects of Hurricane María, outbreaks of protest in response to violence inflicted on Black and Indigenous peoples by law enforcement (as in the US) or to years of dissatisfaction with government leadership (as in Cuba and Puerto Rico), the manipulation of social media algorithms to spread disinformation, and continuing migrations resulting from political, economic, climate, or social crises in countries of origin. More could be added to this list. For this session, we are holding an open call for papers that, from the standpoint of biblical studies, respond to one or more events or phenomena that since 2014 have heightened the critical nature of our times on a transnational scale. We especially seek papers that focus on Latin American and/or Latinx populations, that draw from discursive frameworks of the Global South, and/or that employ hermeneutical approaches developed in Latin American and/or Latinx biblical criticism. Our other two panels will be an invited panel responding to Jean-Pierre Ruiz’s Revelation in the Vernacular (Orbis, 2021) and a session on radical women of color whose call is led by the Minoritized Criticism section.

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