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Part I : Hermeneutics, communities of readers, and context
1. Religious identity, differences, and human rights: the crucial role of hermeneutics/ M. A. Salih and Bas de Gaay Fortman
2. Islamic texts, democracy, and the rule of law: toward a hermeneutics of conciliation / Salman Haq
3. Interpretation in Canon law: faith or reason ? / Phillip J. Brown
4. Judicial textualism: an analysis of textualism as applied to the United States Constitution / Herman Philipse
5. Arbitrary remadings ? Christianity and Islam as capricious hermeneutic communities / Karel Steenbrink
6. Changing hermeneutics in remading and understanding the Bible: the case of the gospel of Mark / Geert van Oyen
Part II Hermeneutics, religious freedom, and exclusion
7. The Qur̕an and religious freedom: the issue of apostasy / Alir Mirmoosavi
8. Dignitatis Humanae: a hermeneutic perspective on religious freedom as interpreted by the Roman Catholic Church / Kurt Martens
9. Strangers and residents: the hermeneutic challenge of non-Jewish minorities in Israel / Deborah Weissman
10. Religious texts as models for exclusion: scriptural interpretation and ethnic Politics in Northern Nigeria / Niels Kastfelt
11. In the name of Allah: Jihad from a Shi̕̕a hermeneutic perspective / Seyed Sadegh Haghighat
12. Views on women in early Christianity: incarnational hermeneutics in Tertullian and Augustine / Willemien Otten
13. Women's rights and the interpretation of Islamic texts: the practice of female genital mutilation / Isatou Touray
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Human rights 
Hermeneutics and reading Scripture