Bible and Cultural Studies
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: In conjunction with a number of other program units, Bible and Cultural Studies 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.
A separate open session on affect theory and biblical interpretation will be co-sponsored with Reading Theory and the Bible. Proposals are welcome for papers that read biblical texts or analyze biblical interpretation in dialogue with theoretical work by writers associated with affect theory (e.g., Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, Eve Sedgwick, Kathleen Stewart, the contributors to The Affect Theory Reader, etc.).
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