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Meeting Program Units

2010 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/20/2010
Meeting Ends11/23/2010

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2009
Call for Papers Closes: 3/1/2010

Requirements for Participation

Islands, Islanders, and Scriptures


Program Unit Type: Consultation
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are planning for an invited session and an open session. For the open session, we invite presentations that address how island ways, realities and/or imaginations [should] shape the reading of the Bible. For instance, from the Caribbean, calypso and reggae hold an intrinsic social critique of power (empire, in the case of reggae), suspicion of grand narrative, and the mimicry of the postcolonial condition. These can form the basis of some hermeneutical dig (or, approach). Further, the art form of limbo (quintessential image of the island holiday) is a statement of survival and triumph when things are at their lowest point, raising another set of hermeneutical lenses for reading texts and realities formed and deformed by the Bible. Proposals along those lines will be welcomed, and presenters are encouraged to engage particular scriptural (biblical and/or otherwise) texts.

Program Unit Chairs

Althea Spencer Miller
Jione Havea

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