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Bas de Gaay Fortman is Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights at the Utrecht University School of Law and the emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Kurt Martens is Associate Professor at the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.

M.A Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development both at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Hermeneutics, Communities of Readers, and Context
Religious Identity, Differences, and Human Rights: The Crucial Role of Hermeneutics	p. 21
Islamic Texts, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Toward a Hermeneutics of Conciliation	p. 37
Interpretation in Canon Law: Faith or Reason?	p. 53
Judicial Textualism: An Analysis of Textualism as Applied to the United States Constitution	p. 69
Arbitrary Readings? Christianity and Islam as Capricious Hermeneutic Communities	p. 81
Changing Hermeneutics in Reading and Understanding the Bible: The Case of the Gospel of Mark	p. 99
Hermeneutics, Religious Freedom, and Exclusion
The Qur'an and Religious Freedom: The Issue of Apostasy	p. 125
Dignitatis Humanae: A Hermeneutic Perspective on Religious Freedom as Interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church	p. 143
Strangers and Residents: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Non-Jewish Minorities in Israel	p. 163
Religious Texts as Models for Exclusion: Scriptural Interpretation and Ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria	p. 185
In the Name of Allah: Jihad from a Shi'a Hermeneutic Perspective	p. 205
Views on Women in Early Christianity: Incarnational Hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine	p. 219
Women's Rights and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: The Practice of Female Genital Mutilation	p. 237
References	p. 253
Index	p. 271
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