The Institute for Studies of Religion’s conference The King James Bible and the World It Made, 1611-2011  has extended the deadline for its call for papers to December 31st. If you have ever done any work on the KJV, here is a great opportunity to bounce your ideas off of a rather illustrious group of scholars. The proposed topics include,

*The KJV and the making of the English language and rhetoric

*The KJV and the language of race and gender

*The KJV and the 17th century: the world of Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan

*The KJV and the public, oral use of the Bible

*The KJV and the Baptist tradition

*The Irish Bible: the KJV in Irish literature and politics

*The KJV and the modern religion and literature of the English-speaking world

(American, European, African, Indian, Australian, etc.)

*The KJV and revivalism

*The KJV and the African-American Churches: Slavery and Jubilee

*The KJV as the Bible of the American South

*The KJV and the language of war and peace

*The KJV as the text of social and urban reform

*The KJV in America, 1607-1776: the roots of revolution

*From one Renaissance to another: The KJV in 19

*The American Civil War and the KJV

*The KJV and the Book of Mormon

*The KJV in modern American politics

*The KJV as scholarship: In the light of later textual scholarship, how does the KJV hold up?

*The KJV Strikes Back: The struggle to defend the KJV against rival translations

*The KJV and world mission

*The KJV and modern global Christianity

*The KJV and the Jewish tradition of Bible translation

*How KJV shaped the Anglophone hymn-making tradition

*Bringing the KJV to the masses: popularizations in cartoon, verse, pamphlet and skit

*The KJV and the history of the book

*The KJV and fundamentalism

*The KJV on the fringes: How later new religions and aspiring prophets shaped their visions according to the models of the KJV

*Bible memorization and evangelical faith

*The KJV, the Bible, and new media: the crisis of the printed word

*The KJV and the end of biblical literacy