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635Re-Imagining Text — Re-Imagining HermeneuticsPostscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 7 (1): 87-122. 2011.With the advent of the digital age and new mediums of communication, it is becoming increasingly important for those interested in the interpretation of religious text to look beyond traditional ideas of text and textuality to find the sacred in unlikely places. Paul Ricoeur’s phenomenological reorientation of classical hermeneutics from romanticized notions of authorial intent and psychological divinations to a serious engagement with the “science of the text” is a hermeneutical tool that opens…Read more
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798Dread Hermeneutics: Bob Marley, Paul Ricoeur and the Productive Imagination.Black Theology 15 (2): 157-175. 2017.This article presents Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutic of the productive imagination as a methodological tool for understanding the innovative social function of texts that in exceeding their semantic meaning, iconically augment reality. Through the reasoning of Rastafari elder Mortimo Planno’s unpublished text, Rastafarian: The Earth’s Most Strangest Man, and the religious and biblical signification from the music of his most famous postulate, Bob Marley, this article applies Paul Ricœur’s schema of t…Read more
Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales
Laurentian University
American Academy of Religion
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American Academy of ReligionOther
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Paul Ricoeur |
Religious Imagination |
Epistemology of Religion |
Afro-Caribbean Philosophy |
Globalization |