Chapter 5 READING HOLY SCRIPTURES
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1. | Title | Title of document | Chapter 5 READING HOLY SCRIPTURES - Earth, Empire and Sacred Text |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | David L. Johnston; Yale University; United States |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | religious disputes; Islam; Christianity |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | BP1-253 Islam; BR115 Christianity in relation to special subjects |
6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter closes the first part of this project. In the preceding pages I have described the socioeconomic and political landscape of postmoder- nity, pointing simultaneously to the urgent nature of Muslim–Christian cooperation in fostering a more inclusive, just and peaceful alternative to the Western-led, neoliberal McWorld, and to the philosophical issues within the postmodern paradigm that Muslim and Christian theologians cannot afford to sidestep. Foregoing the scientism of the modern mind- set, I have urged both parties to take into account how knowledge is produced in science, through theories, models, paradigms and research projects— a process that owes a great deal to the dynamics of individuals working within the framework of received traditions in particular com- munities. I hope to have shown that Barbour’s comparison between the production of knowledge in science and the working out of theology in religion is not so far-fetched as it might have first seemed. Despite the obvious differences in subject matter, one does encounter a great deal of similarity in the methodologies employed. In both cases, the core beliefs draw from and feed into the data through the use of imagination, sym- bols, analogies and models. Though I am here highlighting the reading of sacred texts, Barbour’s characterization of the data of religion as being “religious experience, story and ritual” is a good reminder that all four elements are in dynamic interaction and mutually influence one another in surprising ways. In the following section, I draw out the conclusions of the last chapter on the hermeneutics of sacred scriptures and apply them to the task at hand. I end by making explicit my own approach to the Qur’an in the following chapter.
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7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Apr-2010 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19280 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.19280 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Earth, Empire and Sacred Text |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | global |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |