Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
Program Unit Type: Group
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: We are planning two sessions calling for papers for the Chicago meetings. FIRST SESSION: For this session, we ask: where do discussions of gender and/or sexuality or feminist approaches appear in recent manifestations of the “turn to religion” among philosophers, public media, and other interdisciplinary sites of discussion (such as Immanent Frame)? For this session, then, we seek papers that address/critique the presence or absence of gender/sexuality/feminism in forms of the turn to religion, especially in how these absences/presences feature in engagements with scripture and its afterlives.
SECOND SESSION: The second session is an open session, welcoming proposals for papers on any element of research related to gender, sexuality, and the body in the study of the bible and/or antiquity, including their various afterlives and influences.
Then, in conjunction with a number of other program units, Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible will host four shorter sessions on "Difference." Papers and workshops will consider the important shift in biblical studies to attending to difference, both theoretically and practically. These sessions will explore how particular kinds of difference (e.g. historical, linguistic, racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, sexual, differently-abled, human/non-human differences) are understood, contextualized, theorized, and practiced in the Bible, in its interpretation, and in its political and religious uses. Special attention will be given to the way that cultural and literary theories of difference have recently affected biblical interpretation, such as postcolonial theory, queer theory, poststructural theory, liberation theologies, feminism, etc. The sessions will comprise a panel on difference, a "study together" session that will be open to everyone, a pedagogy session, and a mentoring session.
Questions or further inquiries for any of these sessions may be directed to the chair, Joseph Marchal at josephamarchal@gmail.com
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