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2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The MCBI section holds three sessions this year. (1) The territorial nation-state remains a dominant othering force of our time. Hence for this session, we invite proposals that speak to the theme of "Bible and Nationalism." This session seeks to analyze the role of the Bible in relation to nationalism. Questions of interest include, but are by no means limited to: What are some ways in which the Bible has been interpreted to explain particular forms of nationalism? What biblical language, tropes, motifs, images, narratives, and rhetorics have been used to construct, critique, or sacralize nation-states? How has the Bible informed ways of thinking and talking about the origins of a nation, its mission, its destiny and its role in the world? How has biblical interpretation reinforced nationalist claims of the minoritized Other? We especially welcome proposals of interdisciplinary and intersectional nature. (2) The second session's topic is "Radical Women-of-Color-Centered Biblical Criticism." The political term "women of color" has a solidarity definition and historically describes a commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been "minoritized." Hence, this session invites papers from women-of-color biblical scholars to discuss the history, benefits, and challenges of building a radical women-of-color coalitional movement within biblical studies. While it is an open session, we will also invite a few respondents for a productive conversation across generations. Panelists will be encouraged to engage the contributions of radical feminists of color like Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Chela Sandoval, Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Grace Lee Boggs, and Yuri Kochiyama, to name a few. (3) Our third session is an invited panel reviewing "Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation in the Bible (Routledge, 2022), edited by Jin Young Choi & Gregory L. Cuéllar.

Program Unit Chairs

Gregory Cuéllar
Jin Young Choi

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