Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics

Call For Papers: The Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics Seminar invites proposals addressing the following themes: Theme 1: “The current state of scholarship in Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics.” Proposals may include: (1) an analysis of the history and current state of biblical scholarship in a particular nation state in Asia (e.g., South Korea, Philippines, Myanmar, Japan, China, Indonesia); (2) a specific theory or methodology developed in Asian or Asian-American biblical scholarship (e.g., feminist, postcolonial, sexuality); (3) the state of scholarship around a particular book (e.g., the reading of Matthew, or the reading of Pentateuch) in the Asian or Asian-American context. Theme 2: Radical Women-of-Color-Centered Biblical Criticism. With the Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation, Latina/o and Latin American Biblical Interpretation, and Womanist Interpretation program units, we invite papers from women-of-color biblical scholars to discuss the history, benefits, and challenges of building a radical women-of-color coalitional movement within the field of biblical studies. Panelists will be encouraged to engage the contributions of radical feminists of color (see Minoritized Criticism and Bib Interp CFP for further description). Theme 3: Asian and Asian-American Interpretations of Paul. With the Pauline Theology section, we invite proposals that address Asian and Asian-American (AA-A) contextual readings of Paul, particularly those that analyze and appropriate Pauline texts and themes as resources for AA-A theological reflection and take into account AA-A histories, identities, and social locations (see Pauline Theology CFP for further description). We will have one additional session: A Review of Gale Yee’s Toward an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology (Cascade, 2021) by a panel of invited scholars.

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