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.

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPrefacePart I: Psycho-Textual Synergies1. On Synergy of Pictorial and Verbal Narrativity: The Hermeneutical Importance of Verbal Pre-Texts to Christian Visual Art, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska(Jagiellonian University, Poland)2. Ecological Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of Biblical Texts: A Lutheran Perspective, Kalina Wojciechowska (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw, Poland)3. Phenomenological Approaches to Spiritual Unification of Edith Stein and Pavel Florensky, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, Maryland, USA) Part II: Cultures in Contact 4. The Hermeneutics of Continuity and the Anglican Patrimony in the Roman Catholic Church: A Linguistic Perspective, Wiktor Pskit (University of Lódz, Poland)5. Religious Experience in Translation: An Interpretation of the ‘Own and Foreign‘ Dichotomy in the Light of the Analysis of Translations of Catholic Texts into Russian, Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (Lublin Catholic University, Poland) Part III: Transference of Tradition and Meaningful Connectiveness6. Cultural Communication in Cyrillic Texts of Homilies and Its Interpretations: The Example of the 18th Century Confessional Tradition of Mukachevo Diocese, Peter Ženuch (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Svetlana Šašerina (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)7. Hermeneutics of (In)Comprehension of Religious Texts in Old Believer Communities (on the Example of Old Believers living in Poland), Helena Pociechina (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)8. Icelandic Christian Hagiography as Cultural Syncretism in the Example of the Þorláks Saga, Ásdís Egilsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland) Part IV: The Societal Life-Space in Communality and in Territory9. Hermeneutical Dynamics of the Concept of ‘Misericordia’ in the Theme of La Lanzada [the Spear Jab/Thrust?] in Andalusian Saeta, Ventura Salazar- García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) 10. Linguistic Accessibility of Religious Experience for Signing d/Deaf People in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and Malgorzata Rybka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 11. Pilgrimage as an Embodied and Emplaced Religious Experience in the Case Study of Fatima Sanctuary (Portugal), Paula Alexandra Almeida (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) and Cláudia Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) Index

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.

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPrefacePart I: Psycho-Textual Synergies1. On Synergy of Pictorial and Verbal Narrativity: The Hermeneutical Importance of Verbal Pre-Texts to Christian Visual Art, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska(Jagiellonian University, Poland)2. Ecological Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of Biblical Texts: A Lutheran Perspective, Kalina Wojciechowska (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw, Poland)3. Phenomenological Approaches to Spiritual Unification of Edith Stein and Pavel Florensky, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, Maryland, USA) Part II: Cultures in Contact 4. The Hermeneutics of Continuity and the Anglican Patrimony in the Roman Catholic Church: A Linguistic Perspective, Wiktor Pskit (University of Lódz, Poland)5. Religious Experience in Translation: An Interpretation of the ‘Own and Foreign‘ Dichotomy in the Light of the Analysis of Translations of Catholic Texts into Russian, Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (Lublin Catholic University, Poland) Part III: Transference of Tradition and Meaningful Connectiveness6. Cultural Communication in Cyrillic Texts of Homilies and Its Interpretations: The Example of the 18th Century Confessional Tradition of Mukachevo Diocese, Peter Ženuch (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Svetlana Šašerina (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)7. Hermeneutics of (In)Comprehension of Religious Texts in Old Believer Communities (on the Example of Old Believers living in Poland), Helena Pociechina (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)8. Icelandic Christian Hagiography as Cultural Syncretism in the Example of the Þorláks Saga, Ásdís Egilsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland) Part IV: The Societal Life-Space in Communality and in Territory9. Hermeneutical Dynamics of the Concept of ‘Misericordia’ in the Theme of La Lanzada [the Spear Jab/Thrust?] in Andalusian Saeta, Ventura Salazar- García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) 10. Linguistic Accessibility of Religious Experience for Signing d/Deaf People in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and Malgorzata Rybka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 11. Pilgrimage as an Embodied and Emplaced Religious Experience in the Case Study of Fatima Sanctuary (Portugal), Paula Alexandra Almeida (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) and Cláudia Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) Index

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.

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPrefacePart I: Psycho-Textual Synergies1. On Synergy of Pictorial and Verbal Narrativity: The Hermeneutical Importance of Verbal Pre-Texts to Christian Visual Art, Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska(Jagiellonian University, Poland)2. Ecological Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of Biblical Texts: A Lutheran Perspective, Kalina Wojciechowska (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw, Poland)3. Phenomenological Approaches to Spiritual Unification of Edith Stein and Pavel Florensky, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, Maryland, USA) Part II: Cultures in Contact 4. The Hermeneutics of Continuity and the Anglican Patrimony in the Roman Catholic Church: A Linguistic Perspective, Wiktor Pskit (University of Lódz, Poland)5. Religious Experience in Translation: An Interpretation of the ‘Own and Foreign‘ Dichotomy in the Light of the Analysis of Translations of Catholic Texts into Russian, Malgorzata Widel-Ignaszczak (Lublin Catholic University, Poland) Part III: Transference of Tradition and Meaningful Connectiveness6. Cultural Communication in Cyrillic Texts of Homilies and Its Interpretations: The Example of the 18th Century Confessional Tradition of Mukachevo Diocese, Peter Ženuch (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Svetlana Šašerina (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)7. Hermeneutics of (In)Comprehension of Religious Texts in Old Believer Communities (on the Example of Old Believers living in Poland), Helena Pociechina (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)8. Icelandic Christian Hagiography as Cultural Syncretism in the Example of the Þorláks Saga, Ásdís Egilsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland) Part IV: The Societal Life-Space in Communality and in Territory9. Hermeneutical Dynamics of the Concept of ‘Misericordia’ in the Theme of La Lanzada [the Spear Jab/Thrust?] in Andalusian Saeta, Ventura Salazar- García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) 10. Linguistic Accessibility of Religious Experience for Signing d/Deaf People in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and Malgorzata Rybka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 11. Pilgrimage as an Embodied and Emplaced Religious Experience in the Case Study of Fatima Sanctuary (Portugal), Paula Alexandra Almeida (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) and Cláudia Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal) Index