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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

Ritual in the Biblical World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Ritual in the Biblical World section will offer three sessions in the upcoming 2024 annual meeting. 1) The first session will be a joint session with the Bible and Emotion section. We invite proposals that examine the close relationship between emotion and ritual and the ways in which ritual engages with emotion to form, maintain and excise social structures. This session is the first of a series of joint sessions in which the relationship between ritual and emotion as presented in the biblical texts and surrounding Levantine cultures will be explored with a hoped for volume following the conclusion of the series. 2) The second session will also be a joint session with the Religions in Israel and Judah in their West Asian Environment section. In this joint session, we welcome papers that take a practice-based approach to the study of religion in the ancient Levant, with a focus on Israel and Judah noting that new discoveries as well as new emphasis on domestic religion have dramatically changed scholarly histories of Israelite religion and emphasized its diversity and complexity. 3) The third session will be an open session on all parameters of meaning and function of ritual found in textual and iconographic sources in the larger context of the cultures of the ancient world, employing insights and methods from the field of ritual theory.

Program Unit Chairs

Daniel Belnap
Jade Weimer

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