Feminist Study of Religion: Various Hermeneutical Approaches

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore various feminist interpretations of the text of revealed faiths for presenting new appropriate meanings of equality and debates upon gender relations made in lieu of contemporary social needs and circumstances. This paper follows the hermeneutical strategies of twentieth century which throw the prestige of traditional structures into confusion. It also discusses how feminists used the religious frame to make their work influential and transformed it into an academic field of study? What modules constitute this interpretive discipline? This article revolves around the struggles of feminist scholars who strived to introduce new ways of study of Quran being isolated from its classical literature. The discussion also incorporates the ideas of allegorical reading of Quran to manage the tension of adheres of misunderstanding and to discover the intended meanings applied by male scholars in the course of gender equality.