Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights Between Text and Context
by Salih, M.A. Mohamed; de Gaay Fortman, Bas; Martens, KurtFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-03-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Bas de Gaay Fortman is Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights at the Utrecht University School of Law and the emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Kurt Martens is Associate Professor at the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
M.A Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development both at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Hermeneutics, Communities of Readers, and Context | |
| Religious Identity, Differences, and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Hermeneutics | p. 21 |
| Islamic Texts, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Toward a Hermeneutics of Conciliation | p. 37 |
| Interpretation in Canon Law: Faith or Reason? | p. 53 |
| Judicial Textualism: An Analysis of Textualism as Applied to the United States Constitution | p. 69 |
| Arbitrary Readings? Christianity and Islam as Capricious Hermeneutic Communities | p. 81 |
| Changing Hermeneutics in Reading and Understanding the Bible: The Case of the Gospel of Mark | p. 99 |
| Hermeneutics, Religious Freedom, and Exclusion | |
| The Qur'an and Religious Freedom: The Issue of Apostasy | p. 125 |
| Dignitatis Humanae: A Hermeneutic Perspective on Religious Freedom as Interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church | p. 143 |
| Strangers and Residents: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Non-Jewish Minorities in Israel | p. 163 |
| Religious Texts as Models for Exclusion: Scriptural Interpretation and Ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria | p. 185 |
| In the Name of Allah: Jihad from a Shi'a Hermeneutic Perspective | p. 205 |
| Views on Women in Early Christianity: Incarnational Hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine | p. 219 |
| Women's Rights and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation | p. 237 |
| References | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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