Hermeneutics

After discussing how historical and contemporary Christian women have developed feminist hermeneutics to include female experiences and examined how these women have torn down Christianity’s limiting and misogynistic stances towards women’s bodies, one might come to the conclusion that inclusivity was also a central tenant in this reformation of…

Comparing and Contrasting Giddens and Bourdieu Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu both focused their social theories on proving the same phenomenon. The central focus of their studies was related to the relationship between structure and agency. Previous classical theorists stated that both structure and agency were two different concepts that existed in opposition to each other. However, Giddens and Bourdieu set out their theories to prove that both structure and agency are separate concepts…

Rowland dissects the theology and apocalyptic hermeneutics of famous theologians, Thomas Muentzer and Gerrard Winstanley, so that political discourse does not make facile Biblical interpretation. The apocalyptic language of Daniel is of significant scholarly interest, especially in regards to the biblical metanarrative, but Rowland advocate for a rebalance in Danielic exegesis. Rowland poignantly comments that the scriptures are not for appropriation, political or otherwise; of this he critiques…

Oates’s religious background, one can infer that Oates’s scatters biblical ambiguity and literal allusions throughout her story, creating somewhat of a religious theme – “devils manipulation”. My purpose, I should stress, in employing the realism hermeneutic is not to debunk the fallacies or ridicule the allegorical interpretation of Oates’s story; it’s only to…

this question by saying that Quran utopia has not yet been attained. Although modern Muslim societies have become more progressive in terms of women, there are still concepts, terms, and verses that require deeper reinterpretation and analysis. Hermeneutics is still a common practice in Islamic societies because of this misunderstanding of what the Quran depicts in regard to Muslim women. Additionally, Wadud would argue that "there is no inherent value placed on man or woman and the Quran does…

view point to Christianity and psychology which affirms the two disciplines as separate by equal ways of finding truth. The relationship between psychology and Christianity, God is the head, there is special Revelation verse General Revelation Hermeneutics verse scientific method, and theology verse psychological theory, comparison and analysis. There is gareas of comparison and compatibility: Theology Psychology Sin…

Where Can We Put Phenomenology, Logical Positivism, and Critical Theory in The Urban Planning Context? This short paper addresses the evolution of social inquiry in the planning actions. To shed some light on the social inquiry subject and its development in the planning field Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory approaches will be examined in detail. These three perspectives will be compared and contrasted in each other to obtain similarities and differences in what is seen as…

Satanism Satanism as a religious topic refers to the collaboration of philosophical and ideological beliefs on the character of Satan. Satanism officially lingered in the public offing in 1966, with the emergence of Church of Satanism. However, prior to the Church of Satanism, history shows that Satanism existed earlier. Earlier, according to historical facts, a group known as Sphite Cultus Satanas established itself in the State of Ohio in 1948. Sloane Arthur Herbert founded the Sphite Cultus…

Abuse Against Women The organization that obtained my attention is Women’s Media Center aka WMC. This organization is a fantastic group of people who investigate about women 's sexual assault. The WMC was founded in December 1948 in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi in the United States. What’s interesting about this organization is that is is currently in 44 different countries helping to expose humanitarian, sexual assault, civil right violations etc. In the case of Mexico, the Women Under…

The Responses Surprisingly, Benhabib does not in her response retreat very far from his prior positions and need to stake out an ontological subject. She questions the very validity/reliability of performativity by asking “whether Butler’s…theory of the constitution of gender identity can do justice to the complexities of the ontogenetic origins of gender identity in the human person…or whether…this view can anticipate, indicate, lead us to rethink a new configuration of subjectivity (108).…