Of special interest from our perspectives are the following program units:

1) African Association for the Study of Religion

• Description: Highlighting African contributions to theology and biblical interpretation.
• Call for papers: Highlighting African contributions to theology and biblical interpretation.
• Contact: Kathleen Wicker, kwicker@ScrippsCollege.edu

2) African Biblical Hermeneutics

• Description: This section is devoted to the study of the Bible from African perspectives, and focuses on African issues. A diversity of methods reflecting the social-cultural diversity of Africa is used in reading the Bible. The emphasis is on encouraging readings of the Bible that are shaped by African perspectives and issues, and giving voice to African biblical scholars as they contribute to global biblical scholarship. The unit expects to publish essays from its sessions.
• Call for papers: This section is devoted to the study of the Bible from African perspectives, and focuses on African issues. A diversity of methods reflecting the social-cultural diversity of Africa is used in reading the Bible. The emphasis is on encouraging readings of the Bible that are shaped by African perspectives and issues, and giving voice to African biblical scholars as they contribute to global biblical scholarship. The unit expects to publish essays from its sessions.
• Contact: Musa W. Dube, dubemw@mopipi.ub.bw

3) African-American Biblical hermeneutics

• Description: The specific objective of this unit is to engage in the interdisciplinary and holistic study of the Bible and its place in a multi-faceted and complex African-American cultural Weltanschauung.
• Web site: http://www.hrpj.com/aabhs.html
• Call for papers: The AABHS plans 4 sessions for Boston. 1) an open session that covers any area of hermeneutics in the African-American traditions, and may take seriously but is not limited to the notion that Boston historically was a site of resistance in U.S. and African-American history for biblical interpretative endeavors; 2) a call to explore political implications in Pauline texts as a joint session with Paul & Politics Section; 3) review panel for Wil Gafney's Daughters of Miriam and Mignon Jacob's Gender, Power, and Persuasion: The Genesis Narratives and Contemporary Portraits; and 4) an invited review panel for a forthcoming Biblia Africana commentary (this last session may be modified).
• Contact: Valerie Bridgeman-Davis, vbridgemandavis@MemphisSeminary.edu, and Rodney Sadler, rsadler@union-psce.edu.