Queens+of+all+creation

Hermeneutics - it provides a theory and practice of interpretation
 * involves cultivating the ability to understand things from someone else's point of view and to appreciate the social and cultural forces that may have led to that outlook.
 * "suggests validity questions, practices, and criteria that have important analogs in a range of approaches to interpretive social science or "qualitative" research methods" (p. 129)
 * provide means of combining information across multiple pieces of evidence, of dealing with disabling biases that readers may bring, and of bringing principles, criteria, or standards into contact with cases. p.130
 * "At the most general level, hermeneutics characterizes an integrative approach to combining source of evidence in developing an interpretation." (p. 130)
 * Eliminating your own bias as to read the text with as few bias' as possible.
 * understand the whole in light of its parts, and the parts in light of the whole
 * interpretations are repeatedly tested until each of the parts can be accounted for in an interpretation of the whole.

Differences than the normal:
 * constantly rechecking evidence against all available evidence as a whole
 * be constantly aware, as the reader or interpreter, of your personal biases and work to eliminate them in your interpretation of the whole
 * awareness of your own bias and the bias of others in the conversation (writer and/or other students) as to be able to clearly form a common language and understand the text in it's own truth
 * Being forthcoming with your own bias and the context in which you are learning.

"What distinguishes legitimate prejudices from the countless others which it is the undeniable task of critical reason to overcome?" (p. 131). - GOOD QUESTION!!!

Paper: Spell out why you think the way you do and where you are coming from in that approach - hermeutic approach