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2009 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA

Meeting Begins11/21/2009
Meeting Ends11/24/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2009

Requirements for Participation

African Biblical Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 1. African Bible Commentary (Zondervan 2006): An Engagement The publication of the African Bible Commentary (ABC) is a monumental achievement in the African biblical interpretation landscape. But what makes the ABC African? Papers that engage the ABC from a gender, feminist, inculturation, postcolonial, HIV&AIDS, black biblical hermeneutics and other interpretative perspectives are welcome. 2. African Biblical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pentecostalism Papers that explore biblical interpretation in, among and about Pentecostal movements are invited. Papers that focus on reading particular passages with Pentecostal readers; exploring the most popular biblical interpretations in Pentecostal movements; highlighting gender and biblical reading; analyzing material wealth and biblical interpretation; reading the text for physical healing; HIV&AIDS Biblical Hermeneutics in Pentecostal movments; Euro-American Tele-evangelists and African Pentecostal biblical hermeneutics and other related papers will be welcome. 3. Pedagogy and African Biblical Hermeneutics. Theoretical and practice-informed papers are invited that investigate pedagogy in the light of African biblical hermeneutics; HIV&AIDS contexts; postcoloniality and Pentecostal Movements. Papers that address teaching African Biblical Hermeneutics in the Western classrooms; teaching the Bible with a fair representation of other ways of reading besides Eurocentric ones; developing syllabi that are representative of the diversity of Bible readers and communities and mapping past and present African voices on biblical pedagogy are also welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango

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