Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience by Haladewicz-Grzelak, Malgorzata; Widel-Ignaszczak, Malgorzata;

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Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 30 October 2025
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9781350518469
Binding Hardback
No. of pages264 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Language English
Illustrations 19 bw illus

Short description:

An exploration of the intersection of culture, language, and the Christian religious experience through hermeneutics and phenomenology, from a practical perspective.

Long description:

This book explores the intersection of culture, language, and religious experience, and approaches hermeneutics as a meta-perspective to address Christian religious communication.
It draws on the work of scholars from diverse geographical areas and academic fields, with a particular emphasis on Orthodox and Catholic Christianity and Slavic scholarship.

The volume explores Christian experiential identities through hermeneutics and phenomenology, in the context of diversity across denominations through theolinguistic and sociopragmatic perspectives. It offers the reader an exploration of specific cultural textscapes, considering the space of devotional and religious narrations in a variety of discourses. The chapters consider how the Gospel is conditioned and developed by specific strands of Christianity, the values that emerge through cultural contact and contact of specific denominations, how religion interacts with wider societal issues, and processes of sacralization and desacralization of culture, space and expression.

Offering critical insights into hermeneutics in the tradition of Schleiermacher, Gadamer and Ricoeur, it presents a variety of case studies and topics, including Andalusian saeta, Biblical studies, Icelandic hagiographies, issues of adaptation and exoticisation of the language of religious minorities, Old Church Slavonic scriptures, the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal, and sign language.
Through its exploration of religious narratives and interactions, the book not only broadens our understanding of Christian experience but also fosters dialogue across disciplines and cultures.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I: Psycho-Textual Synergies
1. On Synergy of Pictorial and Verbal Narrativity: The Hermeneutical Importance of Verbal Pre-Texts to Christian Visual Art, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska(Jagiellonian University, Poland)
2. Ecological Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of Biblical Texts: A Lutheran Perspective, Kalina Wojciechowska (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw, Poland)
3. Phenomenological Approaches to Spiritual Unification of Edith Stein and Pavel Florensky, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, Maryland, USA)
Part II: Cultures in Contact
4. The Hermeneutics of Continuity and the Anglican Patrimony in the Roman Catholic Church: A Linguistic Perspective, Wiktor Pskit (University of Lââ¥dz, Poland)
5. Religious Experience in Translation: An Interpretation of the 'Own and Foreign' Dichotomy in the Light of the Analysis of Translations of Catholic Texts into Russian, Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (Lublin Catholic University, Poland)
Part III: Transference of Tradition and Meaningful Connectiveness
6. Cultural Communication in Cyrillic Texts of Homilies and Its Interpretations: The Example of the 18th Century Confessional Tradition of Mukachevo Diocese, Peter Zenuch (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Svetlana Saserina (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
7. Hermeneutics of (In)Comprehension of Religious Texts in Old Believer Communities (on the Example of Old Believers living in Poland), Helena Pociechina (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)
8. Icelandic Christian Hagiography as Cultural Syncretism in the Example of the âÃ»orlâÂ°ks Saga, âÃ sdââ s Egilsdââ¥ttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Part IV: The Societal Life-Space in Communality and in Territory
9. Hermeneutical Dynamics of the Concept of 'Misericordia' in the Theme of La Lanzada [the Spear Jab/Thrust?] in Andalusian Saeta, Ventura Salazar- Garcââ a (University of JaâÂ©n, Spain) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland)
10. Linguistic Accessibility of Religious Experience for Signing d/Deaf People in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and Malgorzata Rybka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
11. Pilgrimage as an Embodied and Emplaced Religious Experience in the Case Study of Fatima Sanctuary (Portugal), Paula Alexandra Almeida (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) and ClâÂ°udia Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal)
Index