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2023 International Meeting

Pretoria, South Africa

Meeting Begins7/3/2023
Meeting Ends7/7/2023

Call for Papers Opens: 11/2/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 1/31/2023

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Empire


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Bible is a weighted book for the study of Empires as well as the understanding of the empire-building ideology. This year we will host three sessions. An open session that explores general issues of the relationship between the Bible and Empire. A second invited session examining the concept of Fifth Empire in the newly identified manuscript of the Clavis Prophetarum by António Vieira, SJ, which expands on the traditional interpretation of the divine kingdom while envisaging a future role for the Portuguese Empire. We welcome papers for a third session that raise and explore questions such as: What are the stories of the Bible in African colonialism? Where are the places the Bible is co-opted to justify colonialism in Africa and the different ways this has been applied by various European and African peoples? Was the Bible a means to provide resistance or aid toward the construction of Empire in Africa?

Program Unit Chairs

Ana T. Valdez
Steed Vernyl Davidson

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