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# **Category: Hermeneutics** [← Back to categories](/religioustheory/categories/)

                ![Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/06/max-weber.webp)

### [Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](/religioustheory/posts/beyond-religious-ideas-the-legacy-of-max-weber-in-critical-theory-and-critical-religion-joel-harrison/)

June 19, 2018 — By Joel Harrison

This article was initially published in The New Polis, March 23, 2018. In his essay “The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion,” Donald Wiebe

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                ![Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/02/william_blake_-_satan_smiting_job_with_sore_boils_-_google_art_project.webp)

### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-ii-kevin-lewis/)

May 28, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. We proceed first by a reminder of Scripture itself (which makes no

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                ![Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/05/img_0921-1.webp)

### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-i-kevin-lewis/)

May 19, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis

Biblical hermeneutics, studied reflection upon interpretation of scriptural passages, has not remained static in method or approach over the centuries

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                ![Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/qumran-drawing.webp)

### [Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/foucaults-disciplinary-society-and-the-community-rule-of-qumran-rebekah-gordon/)

March 10, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

In his 1975 work Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault uses the lens of prison and society to examine the ways in which power structures act upon the

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