Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) by Marie Pecorari

“…The juxtaposition of logical impossibilities turns the work into a hermeneutical quandary, leaving the equation unresolved: is Miss Miss a self-parody of or foil for Parks? …”
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PREACHING WHEN VIRAL THREATS CONVERGE: USA SERMONS, 31 MAY AND 7 JUNE 2020 by S.A. Brown

“…Sermons preached in the USA in congregations of distinctive predominant racial identity on the two Sundays following Floyd’s death (31 May and 7 June 2020) are assessed hermeneutically, asking: “In what ways did US sermons, preached on 31 May and 7 June 2020, interpret divine presence and activity in relation to the preacher’s interpretation of listeners’ needs and responsibilities; biblical text(s) referenced, and/or the dual public crisis impinging on national life?” …”
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UNHEARD VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, WITH IMPLICATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S CHURCH by L.M. Mudimeli, J.D.N. Van der Westhuizen

“…As the empowerment of women is located within the discourses of gender equality, a gender lens, which is a biblical liberation hermeneutic of vhusadzi theology, is employed to reconstruct positive discourses regarding people’s perceptions about women in societies. …”
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Perception of violence by transvestigender people in Brazil and its implications for primary health care by Mônica Machado Cunha e Mello, Rodrigo Otávio Moretti-Pires, Marcos Claudio Signorelli

“…Data analysis was performed using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. Results The statements were categorized into the following themes: “the unintentional nature of violence”, “violence in health services” and “the family as a producer of violence”. …”
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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa by Ernst Wendland

“…Further attention is devoted to some of the conceptual challenges that this text, as an example of the Galatian epistle as a whole, poses for mother-tongue speakers due to their lack of an adequate biblical and hermeneutical frame of reference. Suggestions are offered as to how this significant cognitive disparity might be overcome through the use of a judicious selection of paratextual features, in particular, the incorporation of contextually relevant explanatory footnotes. …”
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Thinking God in a Global Multi-religious Context: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities by Rian Venter

“…This article situates God-talk intentionally in the present global and post-secular horizon and asks about the implications of this hermeneutical move. Mapping scholarly trends in this regard is a specific aim of the article, which is written from the perspective of Systematic Theology in conversation with the Study of Religion. …”
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L’idéo-scénarisation sonore du paysage comme support métaphorique de sa médiation by Philippe Woloszyn

“…Through this mediation process, such hermeneutic work engenders an awareness of the environmental qualities of the experienced landscape by mobilising the listener’s analogical and metaphorical cognitive faculties. …”
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Injustices épistémiques : lorsqu’autisme et dyscommunication se conjuguent, comment faire entendre ses choix ? by Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau

“…How can alternative communication artefacts be used to minimise the processes of silencing and create an 'inclusive hermeneutic climate' capable of overcoming identity-based prejudices (Fricker, 2007)? …”
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ESSENTIA OF HUMAN BEING AND ONTO-THEOLOGICAL ESSE OF METAPHYSICS: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT by N. V. Skrytska

“…For the sake of disclosure multifacetedness human being used such methods: the method of terminological analysis, hermeneutic method, a method of classification, historical method, philosophical method, dialectical method, the method of generalization, the method of abstraction, the method of idealization, phenomenological method. …”
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ESSENTIA OF HUMAN BEING AND ONTO-THEOLOGICAL ESSE OF METAPHYSICS: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT by N. V. Skrytska

“…For the sake of disclosure multifacetedness human being used such methods: the method of terminological analysis, hermeneutic method, a method of classification, historical method, philosophical method, dialectical method, the method of generalization, the method of abstraction, the method of idealization, phenomenological method. …”
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Charisma: Religious Measurement by Olga G. Sladneva

“…The methodology of this work contains informative approaches: comparative, hermeneutical, dialectical and structuralist one. The scientific novelty. …”
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'n Narratiewe teologiese verkenning van negatiewe koronêre vatomleidingsoperasieuitkomste: 'n chirurgiese hermeneutiek by M. J. Swart, G. J. van Zyl, J. A. van den Berg

“…By following an auto-ethnographic approach, an invitation is offered to participate in sharing the surgeon’s database as a new hermeneutic text. Fellow cardiac surgeons on a national level are involved by way of a Delphi research model, providing for a collective tracing of God’s involvement in surgical outcomes. …”
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Taking offense: Religion, art and visual culture in plural configurations, by Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, and Anne-Marie Korte (eds.) 2018 by Tammy Wilks

“…The authors of Taking offense engage the above question as a hermeneutic that brings chapters in a 'multidisciplinary conversation' (Meyer et al. 2018:10). …”
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Nurses' Experiences of Caring for Older Persons in Transition to Receive Homecare: Being Somewhere in between Competing Values by Sigrun Hvalvik, Bjørg Dale

“…Eleven home nurses divided into two focus groups were interviewed, and a phenomenological hermeneutical design was used. Four interpretations closely related to each other were revealed: it is essential to have an understanding of the patients' transition history; the nurse' repertoire is challenged in the transition process; care must be adapted to the patients' life world; the excellence of care is threatened by the context. …”
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“Like a Dance”: Performing Good Care for Persons with Dementia Living in Institutions by Kristin Mjelde Helleberg, Solveig Hauge

“…The data were analysed following the hermeneutic tradition inspired by Kvale. The analyses revealed three main findings describing good care: (a) to find: to identify the patient’s personal characteristics, state, and needs, (b) to follow: to choose the right time and the tempo and to adapt to the patient’s sensitivity, and (c) to lead: to be in the forefront and prepared and to change the patient’s state. …”
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Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture by S. Joubert

“…It compels the intended readers to realign themselves with the provocative narration of Jesus as the atypical Messiah who challenges the physiognomic stereotypes of an honour-shame-based context. From this hermeneutical perspective, the reference text of Mark provokes a second text, the reception text, but does not replace it. …”
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La défiance envers la médecine - une injustice épistémique envers les médecins ou envers les patient·es ? by Marie-Lou Reymondon

“…Many of these situations can be interpreted as cases of epistemic injustice suffered by patients themselves - and more precisely, hermeneutical injustice or epistemic trust injustice. …”
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Reading scripture through a mystical lens by Celia Kourie

“…Utilising the insights of a French Carmelite, Elisabeth Catez, a mystical reading of Paul exemplifies this new, yet ancient, hermeneutical method. …”
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“It all starts with urgency…” Engaging with the local ekklesia of Thessalonica as a window and mirror en route to sustained missionary impact by S. Joubert

“…By immersing ourselves in these texts, which also serve as hermeneutical mirrors, we intend to participate in a mimetic learning process, in order to come to terms with the nature of Paul’s embodied proclamation of the Gospel and his missional urgency. …”
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HOMILETIC CONTOURS FOR PREACHING TO LISTENERS WHO FEAR THE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF CORRUPTION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS

“…The article uses a hermeneutical interaction between the elements of research. …”
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