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Meeting Program Units

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

Construction of Christian Identities


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the Annual Meeting of New Orleans 2009, this Unit plans to invite the speakers for one of its sessions (panel discussion) and to accept papers for the other. The title of the panel discussion is: "From Christianity to Christianities: Ways Back to the Origins." We would like to explore the possibility to move back from the consolidated situation of Christianity we know better (that of a "Great Church" and of "heresies") to the complexity of the origins. The title of the open session is: "Rituals, Texts, Individuals and Associations: Competing ways to Construct Identities?" We invite contributions which analyze first century events and/or phenomena pertaining to cultural mechanisms which could have contributed to the construction of a group identity, both among the followers of Jesus and in comparable groups. Please, feel free to send any proposal for papers, the content of which corresponds to the specific subject of the open session and to the lines established in the General Description of the Section.

Program Unit Chairs

Edmondo F. Lupieri
Mauro Pesce

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