Aliou Cissé Niang is an associate professor of biblical interpretation—New Testament—at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Niang is the author of Faith and Freedom in Galatia ...view moreAliou Cissé Niang is an associate professor of biblical interpretation—New Testament—at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Niang is the author of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal (2009); co-author of Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World (2012); A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: God, Human-Nature Relationship, and Negritude (Cascade Books, 2019); “Catholic Epistles,” in Anselm Companion to the New Testament (Anselm Academic, 2014); “Space and Human Agency in the Making of the Story of Gershom through a Senegalese Christian Lens,” Forum-Journal of Biblical Literature (2015); “Islandedness, Translation, and Creolization,” in Islands, Islanders, and Bible: RumInations (2015); “Christianity in Senegal,” and “Diola Religion,” both in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, ed. Mark A. Lamport and Philip Jenkins (2018).view less