This book explores the intersection of culture, language, and religious experience, and approaches hermeneutics as a meta-perspective to address Christian religious communication.
It draws on the work of scholars from diverse geographical areas and academic fields, with a particular emphasis on Orthodox and Catholic Christianity and Slavic scholarship.
The volume explores Christian experiential identities through hermeneutics and phenomenology, in the context of diversity across denominations through theolinguistic and sociopragmatic perspectives. It offers the reader an exploration of specific cultural textscapes, considering the space of devotional and religious narrations in a variety of discourses. The chapters consider how the Gospel is conditioned and developed by specific strands of Christianity, the values that emerge through cultural contact and contact of specific denominations, how religion interacts with wider societal issues, and processes of sacralization and desacralization of culture, space and expression.
Offering critical insights into hermeneutics in the tradition of Schleiermacher, Gadamer and Ricoeur, it presents a variety of case studies and topics, including Andalusian saeta, Biblical studies, Icelandic hagiographies, issues of adaptation and exoticisation of the language of religious minorities, Old Church Slavonic scriptures, the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal, and sign language.
Through its exploration of religious narratives and interactions, the book not only broadens our understanding of Christian experience but also fosters dialogue across disciplines and cultures.
An exploration of the intersection of culture, language, and the Christian religious experience through hermeneutics and phenomenology, from a practical perspective.
Recenzijos
This work is an excellent compilation of themes that refers a very contemporary problem: what is the relation between religion and hermeneutics? It constitutes a prism that invokes several edges such as: art, spirituality, history, society and community at the time that takes relevant hermeneutical and phenomenological items such as subjectivity, community, experience, translation, interpretation perspective, language, and so on. The reader will find interesting applies of the canonic themes of hermeneutics and her history. -- Jesśs Miguel Rodrķguez Ramķrez, University of Guanajuato, Mexico
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An exploration of the intersection of culture, language, and the Christian religious experience through hermeneutics and phenomenology, from a practical perspective.
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List of Contributors
Preface
Part I: Psycho-Textual Synergies
1. On Synergy of Pictorial and Verbal Narrativity: The Hermeneutical
Importance of Verbal Pre-Texts to Christian Visual Art, Elzbieta
Chrzanowska-Kluczewska(Jagiellonian University, Poland)
2. Ecological Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of Biblical Texts: A
Lutheran Perspective, Kalina Wojciechowska (Christian Theological Academy,
Warsaw, Poland)
3. Phenomenological Approaches to Spiritual Unification of Edith Stein and
Pavel Florensky, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, Maryland, USA)
Part II: Cultures in Contact
4. The Hermeneutics of Continuity and the Anglican Patrimony in the Roman
Catholic Church: A Linguistic Perspective, Wiktor Pskit (University of Lódz,
Poland)
5. Religious Experience in Translation: An Interpretation of the Own and
Foreign Dichotomy in the Light of the Analysis of Translations of Catholic
Texts into Russian, Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (Lublin Catholic University,
Poland)
Part III: Transference of Tradition and Meaningful Connectiveness
6. Cultural Communication in Cyrillic Texts of Homilies and Its
Interpretations: The Example of the 18th Century Confessional Tradition of
Mukachevo Diocese, Peter enuch (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Svetlana
aerina (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
7. Hermeneutics of (In)Comprehension of Religious Texts in Old Believer
Communities (on the Example of Old Believers living in Poland), Helena
Pociechina (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)
8. Icelandic Christian Hagiography as Cultural Syncretism in the Example of
the Žorlįks Saga, Įsdķs Egilsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Part IV: The Societal Life-Space in Communality and in Territory
9. Hermeneutical Dynamics of the Concept of Misericordia in the Theme of
La Lanzada [ the Spear Jab/Thrust?] in Andalusian Saeta, Ventura Salazar-
Garcķa (University of Jaén, Spain) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole
University of Technology, Poland)
10. Linguistic Accessibility of Religious Experience for Signing d/Deaf
People in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poland) and Malgorzata Rybka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
11. Pilgrimage as an Embodied and Emplaced Religious Experience in the Case
Study of Fatima Sanctuary (Portugal), Paula Alexandra Almeida (Polytechnic
Institute of Tomar, Portugal) and Clįudia Silva (Polytechnic Institute of
Tomar, Portugal)
Index
Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at Opole University of Technology, Poland.
Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation Studies and Slavic Languages at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
