Womanist Interpretation

Call For Papers: SESSION 1: This is an open call for womanist biblical interpretation papers from biblical scholars and doctoral students doing or engaging womanist biblical interpretation. SESSION 2: Sister(s) Act 2(Too). The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of Renita Weems’ seminal book Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible (1988), the first critical reading of women’s stories in the Bible from the perspective and experiences of African American women. As one of the earliest efforts by Black women biblical scholars bridging the gap between the academy and the pew, JASA employed the tools of biblical scholarship to address questions ordinary black women readers raise about God, faith, life, love, relationships and unmerited suffering. This call invites papers from womanist scholars in Bible and other disciplines that (a) engage, expand upon, or approach the same or other biblical stories, or (b) advance dimensions of the publication of JASA in the critical study of gender, race, sexuality, and/or embodiment in biblical texts and traditions; or in the history of womanist/feminist writings and intellectual production of its time. Papers can bring contemporary concerns, histories, traditions, stories about relationships among/between Black women in conversation with biblical narratives. Presenters whose proposals are accepted are invited to revise their papers by JULY 2023 for publication in Sister(s) Act 2(Too): A Womanist ReVision of Women’s Relationships in/and the Bible in the 21st Century, co-edited by Renita J. Weems and Mitzi J. Smith; SESSION 3 is an invited book review panel. SESSION 4 “Radical Women-of-Color-Centered Biblical Criticism” is joint with Minority Criticism and Biblical Interpretation inviting papers engaging the works of 'radical' feminists of color, e.g. Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Chela Sandoval, Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Grace Lee Boggs..

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