{"product_id":"gender-justice-in-muslim-christian-readings-christian-and-muslim-women-in-norway-making-meaning-of-texts-from-the-bible-the-koran-and-the-hadith-9789004306691","title":"Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings: Christian and Muslim Women in Norway: Making Meaning of Texts from the Bible, the Koran, and the Hadith","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn times when gender and the status of women are played into the field of religious identity politics, this book shows that bringing female readers together to explore the canonical texts in the two traditions provides new insights about the texts, the contexts, and the ways in which Muslim-Christian dialogue can provide complex and promising hermeneutical space where important questions can be posed and shared strategies found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents  Acknowledgements   PART I - INTRODUCTION  CHAPTER 1  BACKGROUND, AIM, AND FOCUS     Gender Justice    Delimitations of this Study   PART II - THEORETICAL, CONTEXTUAL, AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES  CHAPTER 2  THEORETICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES    Hermeneutics, Dialogue, and Feminisms     Hermeneutics     Dialogue and Hermeneutics     Two Models of Interreligious\/Transreligious Dialogue     Feminisms, Muslim‐Christian Dialogue, and Hermeneutics   CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS, CHOICES, AND TOOLS     Situating the Project Methodologically     Establishing the Empirical Material: Selecting Texts,    Participants, and Working Methods     Methodological Discussions     Ethical Perspectives     The Empirical Material in the Study and the Analysis   PART III - SITUATING THE BIBLE, THE KORAN, AND THE HADITH: READINGS OF THE HAGAR\/HAJAR NARRATIVES CHAPTER 4 SHARING IMAGES AND EXPERIENCES OF THE KORAN AND THE BIBLE     Is it OK to Leave the Bible on the Floor?    Different Understandings of Materiality and Respect for the Bible and the Koran        The First Discussion in the Group: Complex Communication        What is at Stake for the Participants in this Discussion  CHAPTER 5 MAKING MEANING OF THE HAGAR\/HAJAR NARRATIVES     The Hagar\/Hajar Narratives in the Old Testament and the Hadith     The First Comments on the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives     Discussion 1 on the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives: The Practice of Naming Women     Practices of Naming as an Example of Discrimination Against Women in Text and Context     Discussion 2 on the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives:    Eva: “How could Hagar\/Hajar abandon Ishmael in the desert?”     Discussion 3 on the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives:    The Complexity of the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives in the Process of Interpretation    Testimonies about Narratives of Equality and Hope: Temporal and Spatial Aspects     Discussion 4 on the Hagar\/Hajar Narratives: Obedience versus Forgiveness in the Christian and Islamic Traditions   PART IV - SITUATING THE CONTEXTS: READINGS OF SURA 4:34 AND 1 TIMOTHY 2:8‐15  CHAPTER 6 MAKING MEANING OF SURA 4:34 AND 1 TIMOTHY 2:8‐15     The Texts: 1 Timothy 2:8‐15 (the New Testament) and Sura 4:34 (the Koran)     Discussion 1 on Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8‐15: Inger: “Why do I have to read this in 2006? These texts belong to the past”     Discussion 2 on Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8‐15: Aira: “The old understanding of old things that perhaps used to be sufficient but is not today”     Discussion 3 on Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8‐15: Inger: “Women as wise as us ... need … to get something said!”     Discussion 4 on Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8‐15: Shirin: “But think about it. This is much better than what happens in real life”     Concluding Discussion on Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8‐15: Strategies of Making Meaning and Ethical Implications for the Readers   PART V - CONCLUSIONS  CHAPTER 7 MAKING MEANING OF CANONICAL SCRIPTURES: A STEP TOWARD GENDER JUSTICE?     The Crucial Focus Point in Gender Justice: The Texts or the Readers?     The Canonical Texts: Roles and Functions     The Hermeneutical Strategies and Tools: Shared and Particular     Different Hermeneutical Strategies Used in the Narrative and the Prescriptive Texts?     Religious Differences and How They Are Interpreted: Constitutive or Challenging?     A Dialogically Situated Feminist Hermeneutics     Gender Justice, Religious Traditions, and Dialogue:    In Search for Places of Human Equality   Bibliography  Index of subjects  Index of authors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210678657367,"sku":"9789004306691","price":76.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-justice-in-muslim-christian-readings-christian-and-muslim-women-in-norway-making-meaning-of-texts-from-the-bible-the-koran-and-the-hadith-9789004306691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}