Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

750. The Next Christendom and African Literature

1:45–3:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom C2, Loews

Program arranged by the Conference on Christianity and Literature

Presiding: Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Seattle Pacific Univ.

1. “The Impact of Christianity on Ethiopian Literature: From Past to Present,” Tsegaye Wodajo, Bronx Community Coll., City Univ. of New York

2. “Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies: Female Circumcision and the Politics of World Christianity in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between,” Tameka L. Cage, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

3. “The Rocks Cry Out: Muslim and Christian Writers in the 2001 Jos Crisis,” Deborah Lynn Klein, Oklahoma Christian Univ.

For copies of abstracts, visit www.pepperdine.edu/sponsored/ccl/.

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