Sessions
Leipzig 2013
For the EABS Conference in Leipzig in 2013, we are inviting papers for two sessions. One session will concentrate on the work of William Dubois (author, inter alia, of The Souls of Black Folk) and will seek to interrogate his writings from the perspective of his use of biblical themes in his sociological and literary work and also reflect on how his concepts, such as 'double consciousness' resonate with contemporary concerns about identity, hybridity and minority criticism and the analysis of specific biblical texts. The second session is an open session and we welcome submissions that address any of the three concentrations we focus upon, namely: using social sciences/sociology to read ancient texts in context and reconstruct ancient social worlds; the legacy of biblical ideas in the work of sociologists and social scientists and, thirdly, the development of ethnographic study of Bible use in a variety of global contexts. In the latter regard papers can be methodological or ideally report on case studies in progress or recently completed.