Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience: International Perspectives

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Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience

International Perspectives

Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland), Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

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Bloomsbury Academic
30 October 2025

Philosophy of language; Sociolinguistics; Interdisciplinary studies; Christianity

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.

Edited by: Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology Poland), Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781350518469
ISBN 10: 1350518468
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at Opole University of Technology, Poland. Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation Studies and Slavic Languages at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

Reviews for Hermeneutical Narratives in Christian Religious Experience: International Perspectives

This work is an excellent compilation of themes that refers a very contemporary problem: what is the relation between religion and hermeneutics? It constitutes a prism that invokes several edges such as: art, spirituality, history, society and community at the time that takes relevant hermeneutical and phenomenological items such as subjectivity, community, experience, translation, interpretation perspective, language, and so on. The reader will find interesting applies of the canonic themes of hermeneutics and her history. -- Jesús Miguel Rodríguez Ramírez, University of Guanajuato, Mexico