Bible in Politics Conference: Hot Topics!
Leave a commentApril 24, 2017 by Harnessing Chaos
Just before the General Election, CSSSB will provide the most up-to-date assessment of contemporary politics and possibly predict the election outcome with a 3% margin of error. Yes, finally some relevance for biblical studies for it is the Bible in Politics conference, 2-3 June! In addition to Erin Runion’s headline act, here are some of the topics to be covered at the conference:
- Political uses of Paul as “mystic”
- Bible in the American political sphere
- Biblical aesthetics, Islamophobia and Homeland
- The Bible, the Muslim Other and the far right
- Andrei Zviagintsev’s 2014 film Leviathan
- Politics of biblical translation
- Taiping Revolution
- Apocalypse on the Left
- Bible and New Zealand politics
- The Bible and contemporary Scottish politics
- Trump’s Bible
Here is the link for registration: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/169437
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