The volume is the "outcome of the international conference hosted in honor of two eminent veteran scholars Richard De Smet and Jean de Marneffe of the Faculty of Philosophy at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune in January 2014 ..."-- Editorial, page vi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Navigating cross-hermeneutical currents : a subaltern perspective / Felix Wilfred -- Celebrating difference : doing philosophy otherwise / Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason -- Trifocal hermeneutics : mimesis, krisis, poiesis / Keith D'Souza -- Religion, culture and communication / George Karuvelil -- Towards a creative hermeneutics of praxis / Kuruvilla Pandikattu -- Hermeneutical influences in U. S. philosophy of religion and theology / Brendan Sweetman -- The hermeneutics of ethical research : a case study of aboriginal and Torres Strait islander communities / J�anis Ozoli�n�s -- The analogical hermeneutics of Latin America : tracing its relevance to philosophy and theology / Corina Yoris-Villasana -- Hermeneutics of the genius of the absurd : interpreting the Dao / Alfredo P. Co -- Contribution and challenge of M�im�a�ms�ato the dream of a global hermeneutics / Francis X Clooney -- The dialectic of non-dual intuition of the absolute : a study of �S�unyat�a of N�ag�arjuna in M�ulam�a dhyamikak�arik�a / Stephen Chundamthadam -- The liberative hermeneutics of Dr. Ambedkar / Noel Sheth -- Quest for identity and liberation : a Dalit hermeneutical reading / Selvaraj Arulnathan -- The portrait of women : a feminist hermeneutics of Sangam literature / I. Josephine Jeyashanthi.