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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The LGBTI/ Queer Biblical Hermeneutics program unit invites papers for an open session on "Queering Canons." How do LGBTI/ Queer interpreters engage, deploy, and challenge biblical canons? What rhetorical and interpretive methods are employed by LGBTIQ individuals and communities to "queer" the canons of traditional biblical studies? In what ways do LGBTIQ cultural canons, including traditions of camp, drag, literature, and film, intersect with, undermine, or augment biblical texts and traditions? Do queer identities and positionalities necessitate the destruction of canons or can queer interpreters create and deploy alternative canons?" In addition, LGBTI/ Queer Hermeneutics will sponsor an invited review panel on Sussanah Cornwall's book "Intersex, Theology and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text and Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2015). To explore intersectionalities in biblical interpretation, a third, and invited, cosponsored panel on the legacy of Randall Bailey will be held in cooperation with the African American Biblical Hermeneutics Section.

Program Unit Chairs

David Tabb Stewart
Lynn R. Huber

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