Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, a...
Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de.

 

  • Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights[electronic resource] :between text and context /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 210.14
    Title/Author: Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights : between text and context // edited by Bas de Gaay Fortman, Kurt Martens, and M.A. Mohamed Salih.
    other author: Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010, c2009.
    Description: xii, 277 p. ;; 22 cm.
    Subject: Hermeneutics - Religious aspects.
    Subject: Religion and politics.
    Subject: Freedom of religion.
    Subject: Human rights - Religious aspects.
    ISBN: 9780230105959
    ISBN: 0230105955
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Religious Identity, Difference and Human Rights: The Crucial Role ofHermeneutics / M.A. Mohamed Salih and Bas de Gaay Fortman -- Islamic Texts, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Towards a Hermeneutics of Conciliation / Salman Haq -- Interpretation in Canon Law: Faith or Reason / Phillip Brown -- Judicial Textualism: An Analysis of Textualism as Applied to the United States Constitution / Herman Philipse -- Arbitrary Readings? Christianity and Islam as Capricious Hermeneutic Communities / Karel Steenbrink -- Changing Hermeneutics in Reading and Understanding the Bible: The Case of the Gospel of Mark / Geert van Oyen -- The Qur'an and Religious Freedom / Ali Mirmoosavi -- Dignitatis Humanae. A Hermeneutic Perspective on Religious Freedom as Interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church / Kurt Martens -- Strangers and Residents: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Non-Jewish Minorities in Israel /Deborah Weissman -- Religious Texts as Models for Exclusion. Scriptural Interpretation and Ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria / Niels Kastfelt -- Jihad from a Shi'a Hermeneutic Perspective / Sadegh Haghighat -- Views on Women in Early Christianity: International Hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine / Willemien Otten -- Women's Rights and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation / Isatou Touray.
    [NT 15000229]: This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in thecomplex fields of religious freedom and humanrights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity,Judaism, and Islam. It traverses the conventional notions of religioushermeneutics by explicating the capacity of hermeneutics broadly understood as the act of interpretation of in transforming scripture into meaning and meaning into political or social action in the name of religionor God.
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