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Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights: Between Text and Context

By M.A. Mohamed Salih , Kurt Martens , Bas de Gaay Fortman

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230622232, 978-0-230-62223-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3969466 bytes)
Pages
304\292
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It traverses the conventional notions of religious hermeneutics 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 religion or God.

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