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2017 International Meeting

Berlin, Germany

Meeting Begins8/7/2017
Meeting Ends8/11/2017

Call for Papers Opens: 11/9/2016
Call for Papers Closes: 2/21/2017

Requirements for Participation

Europe Contested: Contemporary Bible Readings Performed by "Ordinary" Readers in a European Context (EABS)


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: SESSION ONE: Ethical problems related to the academic study of real readers’ engagement with the Bible. The academic study of real or ’ordinary’ readers’ engagement with the Bible has demonstrated a high potential for policymaking. This situation highlights the ethical responsibility that (after all: every) scholar faces. We are interested in papers that reflect on the various ethical challenges that accompany this kind of scholarship: e.g. some traditions within fieldwork recommend feedback from the participants on the findings/data and on the scholarly analysis. But is feedback an ethical obligation or (just) another set of data? How are we to use and conceptualize feedback? Scholars contributing to this session must draw upon case-studies from their own fieldwork and address the ethical challenges they have experienced whilst completing their research. SESSION TWO: Refugees, migrants and the Bible The goal of this session is to provide a formal yet supportive platform upon which scholars working within the field of contextual biblical interpretation in a European context can present and share their fieldwork findings. Whilst preference will be given to papers that address the present situation in Europe with refugees and migrants, this session also welcomes any contextual readings of biblical texts produced by groups of ‘ordinary’ readers from faith, interfaith or non-faith perspectives, so long as such papers explore readings which somehow engage with ‘Europe’ as a geographical, historical and political phenomenon. Thus, we also welcome papers that engage in the response to Europe and European culture and politics in a post-colonial context.

Program Unit Chairs

Gitte Buch-Hansen
Sharon Jacob

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