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Meeting Program Units

2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Popular Culture


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: OPEN session: We welcome proposals on any aspect of popular culture across the range of biblical literature. We are interested in works that engage clear methodology and theory for the reciprocal way popular culture in any setting or medium engages the Bible and how the Bible informs popular culture. All may join us at our business meeting that follows.

THEMED session: Bible and Murder Mystery: Inspired by the forthcoming book by Dan Clanton, God and the Little Grey Cells: Religion in Agatha Christie's Poirot Stories (June 2024) this session invites proposals that explore the relationship between the Bible and crime fiction, detective stories, mystery novels, and related work through the present day.

Joint Session with AAR Religion and Popular Culture: For this collaboration, we invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged sessions on censorship and book banning that traverse the study of religion and studies of biblical or sacred texts. For full call, see AAR Religion and Popular Culture.

Joint Session with SBL Bible and Film: “Adaptations, translations, and intellectual property: Moving from pop culture to film (or vice versa)” The Bible and Popular Culture unit, in conjunction with the Bible and Film unit, is hosting a joint session on the ways in which characters and narrative ideas move from different spaces in popular culture into the space of film. For full call, see Bible and Film.

Joint Session with Bible and Practical Theology: “Contemporary Black Music and Genre-Bending/Transmedia/Interdisciplinary, Black Theology, and the Bible in Popular Culture Analysis” Music, art, film, and other media and the Bible in the work of Beyoncé and other contemporary artists have been a tool for Womanist and Black Theology. For this collaboration, we are interested in creating a joint session that explores these areas. For the full call, see Bible and Practical Theology.

Program Unit Chairs

Elizabeth Rae Coody
Katherine Low

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