Browsing Humanities by Subject "Hermeneutics"
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Exploring lived experiences of music listening among rugby players : a hermeneutic phenomenology
(2015)This study is a hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation with the aim of understanding the meanings that the NWU-PUK Rugby Institute players attributed to their lived experience of listening to music before a game. In ... -
The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens
(North-West University, 2008)The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain moment in time. This concept of reality implies an ... -
Fundamentalisme : mythos of logos? Die rol van praktiese wysheid en hermeneutiek in die soeke na wedersydse begrip en dialoog
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)In this study the question is being posed as to whether there is a philosophical means which can serve as possible aid in the search for understanding and dialogue between those of different opinions, in particular in ... -
Hermeneutiese problematiek in Michael White se narratiewe terapeutiese teorie
(North-West University, 2005)This article sets out to explore the hermeneutical problems in the narrative therapeutic theory of Michael White by investigating his understanding of "story" within its interpretative context. In both White's interpretative ... -
Identity in the early fiction of Alan Paton, 1922-1935
(North-West University, 2007)The thesis represents an attempt, within the broad field of religion and literature and of identity studies, to read the early unpublished fiction of Alan Paton, dating from approximately 1922 (the end of his student ... -
Saartjie by Hendrik Hofmeyr : sign systems and context
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate how context is constructed in Hendrik Hofmeyr’s opera Saartjie through the verbal and non-verbal sign systems. In this qualitative study, I have followed a combined ... -
The South Sudan Peace Process: the Case Of African Indigenous Hermeneutics and problematisation
(North-West University (South Africa), 2015)The Sudan is considered a microcosm of Africa in terms of its ethnic and religious diversity as well as its geography, which dictate multiple livelihoods and cultures. The competition between these distinct groups over ...