Practicing Safer Texts
Title | Practicing Safer Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Stone |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2005-05-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780567081728 |
This book uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for examining a number of texts from the Hebrew Bible, as well as later readings of those texts and interpretive issues raised by the texts. A range of biblical texts in which both food and sex appear are analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion with the help of both traditional tools of biblical scholarship and less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology. By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, the book will among other things question the tendency of readers of the Bible to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other matters of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern, such as food. At the same time, as the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, the book also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a sort of loose model. Such an approach assesses texts and readings of the Bible not in a universalizing fashion but rather in terms of their likely effects, for good or ill, on particular readers in particular contexts and situations (just as notions of "safer sex" ask us to assess sexual acts not in a moralizing fashion but, rather, in terms of their likely effects on particular persons.
Practicing Safer Texts
Title | Practicing Safer Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Stone |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2005-05-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780567081827 |
This book uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for examining a number of texts from the Hebrew Bible, as well as later readings of those texts and interpretive issues raised by the texts. A range of biblical texts in which both food and sex appear are analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion with the help of both traditional tools of biblical scholarship and less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology. By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, the book will among other things question the tendency of readers of the Bible to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other matters of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern, such as food. At the same time, as the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, the book also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a sort of loose model. Such an approach assesses texts and readings of the Bible not in a universalizing fashion but rather in terms of their likely effects, for good or ill, on particular readers in particular contexts and situations (just as notions of "safer sex" ask us to assess sexual acts not in a moralizing fashion but, rather, in terms of their likely effects on particular persons.
A Text-book of Rand Metallurgical Practice
Title | A Text-book of Rand Metallurgical Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph S. G. Stokes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Gold |
ISBN |
A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine
Title | A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Corson Cowperthwaite |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1068 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Homeopathy |
ISBN |
Plumbing, a Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber, with Supplementary Chapters Upon House Drainage ...
Title | Plumbing, a Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber, with Supplementary Chapters Upon House Drainage ... PDF eBook |
Author | William Paton Buchan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Plumbing |
ISBN |
The Liberation of Method
Title | The Liberation of Method PDF eBook |
Author | David Janzen |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2021-10-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506474586 |
The field of biblical studies has championed the historical-critical method as the only way to guarantee objective interpretation. But in recent decades, scholars have pursued hermeneutical approaches that provide interpretations useful for marginalized communities who see the Bible as a resource in their struggles against oppression. Such liberative strategies remain on the margins. The Liberation of Method argues that this marginality must end, and that liberative methods should become central to biblical studies.
Practicing Safe Sects
Title | Practicing Safe Sects PDF eBook |
Author | F. LeRon Shults |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2018-02-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004360956 |
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?