Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights

Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights: between text and context

by Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de Martens, Kurt Salih, Mohamed Abdel Rahim M., (Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed)

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This text 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.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights : between text and context / edited by Bas de Gaay Fortman, Kurt Martens, and M.A. Mohamed Salih.

Summary

This text 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010, ©2009.
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010, ©2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 277 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780230622234, 0230622232
  • oclc:ocn499070467
  • LC Classification:BD241
  • Dewey Decimal:210.14

Table of Contents

Religious identity, differences, and human rights: the crucial role of hermeneutics -- Islamic texts, democracy, and the rule of law: toward a hermeneutics of conciliation -- Interpretation in Canon law: faith or reason? -- Judicial textualism: an analysis of textualism as applied to the United States Constitution -- Arbitrary remadings? Christianity and Islam as capricious hermeneutic communities -- Changing hermeneutics in remading and understanding the Bible: the case of the gospel of Mark -- The Qur̕an and religious freedom: the issue of apostasy -- Dignitatis Humanae: a hermeneutic perspective on religious freedom as interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church -- Strangers and residents: the hermeneutic challenge of non-Jewish minorities in Israel -- Religious texts as models for exclusion: scriptural interpretation and ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria -- In the name of Allah: Jihad from a Shi̕̕a hermeneutic perspective -- Views on women in early Christianity: incarnational hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine -- Women's rights and the interpretation of Islamic texts: the practice of female genital mutilation.

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Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Christentum Droits de l'homme (Droit international)… Freedom of religion Glaubensfreiheit Grundrechte -- Religion Grundrechte -- Theologie Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects Hermeneutik Herméneutique -- Aspect religieux Human rights -- Religious aspects Islam Judentum Liberté religieuse Menschenrecht Politik RELIGION Religion -- Grundrechte Religion and politics Religion et politique

Writers

Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de Martens, Kurt Salih, Mohamed Abdel Rahim M., (Mohamed…

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