Religious education’s double hermeneutic

Benedict XVI’s “Hermeneutic of Reform” and Religious Freedom

I. Continuity or Rupture: How Did Vatican II Understand the Church’s Relation with the Modern World?1 IN A notable Christmas message given before the Roman Curia on December 22, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI cautioned against a widespread interpretation of the Second Vatican Council which would posit that the Church after the Council is different than the “preconciliar” Church. Benedict called this e...

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Psychotherapy

The field of psychotherapy has recently seen many technical advances. Yet it remains fragmented on a theoretical level and its philosophical foundations tend to be overlooked. Today, most of psychotherapy is founded on a natural science paradigm or alternatively, on social constructionism. In this chapter, I have critiqued these dominant paradigms and proposed instead a hermeneutic phenomenolog...

UDC 372.8 Theological Media Literacy Education and Hermeneutic Analysis of Soviet Audiovisual Anti-religious Media Texts in Students’ Classroom

This article realized the Russian way of theological media education literacy and hermeneutic analysis of specific examples of Soviet anti-religious audiovisual media texts: a study of the process of interpretation of these media texts, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the media agency / authors. The hermeneutic analysis suggests media text comprehension through comparis...

Philosophical Hermeneutics Hermeneutic Bioethics

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...