Wei Hsien Wan

Academic Interests

Bible
Hermeneutics
Ideology
Language and Power
Politics of temporality in the construction of narratives
Race & Ethnicity
Spatiality

Commons Groups

HC

Cultural Studies
New Testament
Place Studies
Religious Studies

Recent Commons Activity

deposited Repairing Social Vertigo: Spa… in the group Religious Studies
deposited Repairing Social Vertigo: Spa… in the group Place Studies
deposited Repairing Social Vertigo: Spa… in the group New Testament

About

Independent researcher, lecturer, reader. Segambut Dalam, Malaysia.

Education

PhD in Theology & Religion (New Testament), University of Exeter, UK (2016).

MA in Advanced Studies in Theology & Religion (Biblical Studies), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2012).

MA in Sacred Scripture, The Augustine Institute, USA (2007).

BA in Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (1999).

Work Shared in CORE

Articles

Christology, Eschatology and the Politics of Time in 1 Peter
Whose Time? Which Rationality? Reflections on Empire, 1 Peter, and the “Common Era”

Book chapters

Repairing Social Vertigo: Spatial Production and Belonging in 1 Peter
Re-examining the Master’s Tools: Considerations on Biblical Studies’ Race Problem

Other Publications

Wan, Wei Hsien. The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter: Reconfiguring the Universe. Bloomsbury/T&T Clark: London, 2019.

Memberships

Society of Biblical Literature

European Association of Biblical Studies

Independent scholar