Bible and Emotion

Call For Papers: The Bible and Emotion Section will host three sessions in 2022. The first session is OPEN. We invite proposals related to the critical study of emotion across the full range of biblical literature and closely related literature. We are interested in papers that examine divine and/or human emotions in a biblical text, set of texts, book, or genre. The theme of the second session is Emotion and Power. Power and emotion are intimately related as constituent elements of all social life. Emotions are provoked by and produced within social interactions—and the form and content of social interactions are governed by power. Emotions serve as a vehicle for extending and reinforcing existing power structures, but they can also function as a means of resisting, defying, subverting, or redefining the terms of a power relationship. Emotions directed at another person such as fear, anger, disgust, shame, grief, pity, and hate reveal how the one experiencing those emotions imagines who does and who should possess power over whom and who has, should have, or should not have the power to act in certain ways. We invite proposals that explore the intersection between power and emotion in domains such as politics, gender, and sexuality. We will also host a joint session entitled Space and Affect Theory with the Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity program unit. We invite proposals that explore affect theory broadly conceived and ways that affects and emotions are represented, expressed, provoked, and imagined in relation to physical, literary, or imagined spaces. Papers that explore pleasant emotions and emotions of disgust in relation to space are especially encouraged.

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