Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights : Between Text and Context (Hardcover)

Introduction; M.A.M.Salih , B.de Gaay Fortman & K.Martens PART I: HERMENEUTICS, COMMUNITIES OF READERS AND CONTEXT Religious Identity, Difference and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Hermeneutics; M.A.M.Salih & B.de Gaay Fortman Islamic Texts, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Towards a Hermeneutics of Conciliation; S.Haq Interpretation in Canon Law: Faith or Reason; P.Brown Judicial Textualism: An Analysis of Textualism as Applied to the United States Constitution; H.Philipse Arbitrary Readings? Christianity and Islam as Capricious Hermeneutic Communities; K.Steenbrink Changing Hermeneutics in Reading and Understanding the Bible: The Case of the Gospel of Mark; G.van Oyen PART II: HERMENEUTIC, SCRIPTUAL POLITICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS The Qur'an and Religious Freedom; A.Mirmoosavi Dignitatis Humanae. A Hermeneutic Perspective on Religious Freedom as Interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church; K.Martens Strangers and Residents: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Non-Jewish Minorities in Israel; D.Weissman Religious Texts as Models for Exclusion. Scriptural Interpretation and Ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria; N.Kastfelt Jihad from a Shi'a Hermeneutic Perspective; S.Haghighat Views on Women in Early Christianity: International Hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine; W.Otten Women's Rights and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation; I.Touray