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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Polity and history -- Historicity -- Mythscapes -- Tribal ranking and monarchic succession -- Birth order and maternal heritage -- Names, blessings, rank, and social structure -- Intersecting alliances of the Levites -- Territory, kingship, and social structure -- III. Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Polity and history -- Historicity -- Mythscapes -- Tribal ranking and monarchic succession -- Birth order and maternal heritage -- Names, blessings, rank, and social structure -- Intersecting alliances of the Levites -- Territory, kingship, and social structure -- III. Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. …”
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Understanding media users from theory to practice / by Wilson, Tony, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Structuralist and effects studies -- The active audience : speaking subjects -- Perceiving is believing : from phenomenology to media user theory -- Meanings are ours : reader response and audience studies -- The projecting audience : from cinema to cellphone -- A phenomenology of phone use : pervasive play and the ludification of culture -- Selling on screen : from media hermeneutics to marketing communication -- Buying brandscapes : a phenomenology of perception and purchase -- Consumer-citizens : crossing cultures in cyberspace -- Media user theory : going beyond accumulation of audiences.…”
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Understanding media users from theory to practice / by Wilson, Tony, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Structuralist and effects studies -- The active audience : speaking subjects -- Perceiving is believing : from phenomenology to media user theory -- Meanings are ours : reader response and audience studies -- The projecting audience : from cinema to cellphone -- A phenomenology of phone use : pervasive play and the ludification of culture -- Selling on screen : from media hermeneutics to marketing communication -- Buying brandscapes : a phenomenology of perception and purchase -- Consumer-citizens : crossing cultures in cyberspace -- Media user theory : going beyond accumulation of audiences.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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Living the future in dialogue : towards a new integral and transformative model of religious education for Nigeria in the 21st century / by Ugbor, Chizurum Ann, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Groome's shared Christian praxis approach to Christian religious education -- Exposition on Robert Jackson's interpretive and dialogical approach to religious education -- Hermeneutical-communicative model of religious education in a pluralist society -- Towards and integral and transformative model of religious education of the youth in Nigeria : proposals and challenges -- General conclusion.…”
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Living the future in dialogue : towards a new integral and transformative model of religious education for Nigeria in the 21st century / by Ugbor, Chizurum Ann, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Groome's shared Christian praxis approach to Christian religious education -- Exposition on Robert Jackson's interpretive and dialogical approach to religious education -- Hermeneutical-communicative model of religious education in a pluralist society -- Towards and integral and transformative model of religious education of the youth in Nigeria : proposals and challenges -- General conclusion.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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The body in Tolkien's legendarium essays on Middle-earth corporeality /

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The body in Tolkien's legendarium essays on Middle-earth corporeality /

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Creative conformity the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women / by Bucar, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records -- 4. …”
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Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis / by Hunt, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.…”
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Creative conformity the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women / by Bucar, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records -- 4. …”
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Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis / by Hunt, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.…”
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Representing religion essays in history, theory and crisis / by Murphy, Tim, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…: a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience -- The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion -- The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin -- The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion -- Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity -- Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition -- Towards a semiotic theory of religion.…”
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Cruising utopia the then and there of queer futurity / by Muñoz, José Esteban

Table of Contents: “…Queerness as horizon: utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism -- Ghosts of public sex: utopian longings, queer memories -- The future is in the present: sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia -- Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling: approaching Kevin Aviance -- Cruising the toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity -- Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative -- Utopia's seating chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system -- Just like heaven: queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension -- A jeté out the window: Fred Herko's incandescent illumination -- After Jack: queer failure, queer virtuosity.…”
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Representing religion essays in history, theory and crisis / by Murphy, Tim, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…: a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience -- The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion -- The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin -- The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion -- Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity -- Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition -- Towards a semiotic theory of religion.…”
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Cruising utopia the then and there of queer futurity / by Muñoz, José Esteban

Table of Contents: “…Queerness as horizon: utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism -- Ghosts of public sex: utopian longings, queer memories -- The future is in the present: sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia -- Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling: approaching Kevin Aviance -- Cruising the toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity -- Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative -- Utopia's seating chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system -- Just like heaven: queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension -- A jeté out the window: Fred Herko's incandescent illumination -- After Jack: queer failure, queer virtuosity.…”
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Reading other-wise socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities /

Table of Contents: “…Ye ma wo mo! African hermeneuts, you have spoken at last: reflections on Semeia 73 (1996) / Eric Anum -- "Dear God! …”
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Reading other-wise socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities /

Table of Contents: “…Ye ma wo mo! African hermeneuts, you have spoken at last: reflections on Semeia 73 (1996) / Eric Anum -- "Dear God! …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view