IBITA, MA. MARILOU S.
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MARILOU S. IBITA finished her MA Religious Studies at the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies, Quezon City (2000). She completed her MA in Religious Studies (2005), Advanced Master in Religious Studies (2006), Licentiate in Sacred Theology (2009) and her PhD and STD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where she continues to be a visiting professor. She was a member of the steering committee in the Society of Biblical Literature program units of Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making and Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible. At the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), she was a co-chair of the Pauline Theology and Orality and the Bible Research Unity. Currently, she is a member-at-large of the EABS Executive Committee of the EABS while serves as co-founder and co-chair of the Bible and Ecology Research Unit. She is a current Board of Trustee of the Catholic Biblical Association. Her research interests include the Corinthian Correspondence, the Gospels, and biblical hermeneutics that contributes to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and human rights for all. She combines historical-critical method, narrative-critical analysis, and contextual biblical hermeneutics (liberationist, feminist, post-colonial, ecological-economics, trauma, future-oriented, and against anti-Judaism) in her work and publications.