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The Bible in the North: Commodity and Content on the Secular Market

Strømmen, Hannah LU (2024) In Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok (SEÅ) 89. p.45-67
Abstract
Understanding biblical texts in context usually entails an awareness of the times and places in which these texts first emerged and were first encountered. In this article, I aim to make a case for more contextual work on the Bible in the Northern parts of the contemporary world. After discussing contexts in relation to the Bible, I turn to the Global North and questions of secularization, before providing examples of the way the Bible operates as commodity and content on the secular marketplace in Norway. Rather than hyperlocal research into the details of Bible-use in regions that might be considered “the North,” I argue that analysing the Bible in the North requires attention to the way Bibles and biblical texts circulate and change as... (More)
Understanding biblical texts in context usually entails an awareness of the times and places in which these texts first emerged and were first encountered. In this article, I aim to make a case for more contextual work on the Bible in the Northern parts of the contemporary world. After discussing contexts in relation to the Bible, I turn to the Global North and questions of secularization, before providing examples of the way the Bible operates as commodity and content on the secular marketplace in Norway. Rather than hyperlocal research into the details of Bible-use in regions that might be considered “the North,” I argue that analysing the Bible in the North requires attention to the way Bibles and biblical texts circulate and change as part of global flows. (Less)
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Secularisation, The Global North, Biblical reception, Contextual biblical interpretation, Global Flows
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Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok (SEÅ)
volume
89
pages
23 pages
publisher
Svenska exegetiska sällskapet
ISSN
1100-2298
DOI
10.58546/se.v89i1.22717
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Scripture and Secularism: Mapping the Impact of the Bible on Conceptualizations of Europe
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English
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https://publicera.kb.se/sea/article/view/22717
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