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contextualization

Definitions

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  • noun the act or process of putting information into context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found.

Etymologies

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From Latin con- "together" and textual "of a written document".

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Examples

  • Normally, however, the time for that kind of contextualization is not available, and the challenges of teaching the poem in lower-division courses are actually more interesting to discuss, if not always to face.

    Hermeneutics for Sophomores 2003

  • Unfortunately, "proper" contextualization is culture and nation dependent.

    The Meaning of School Shootings: Part Four (and Last) 2008

  • Unfortunately, "proper" contextualization is culture and nation dependent.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Contextualization: to some it equals syncretism, but contextualization is Christianity in context.

    The Multi-Cultural Team Hernia 2006

  • Yet contextualization is more than a refusal to conflate.

    The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

  • Through reportedly very effective in working with Muslims, the method has detractors who say it crosses a line between "contextualization" -- embracing Christianity in ways that are culturally relevant in a given society -- and "syncretism" -- a fusion of two different belief systems that cannot be reconciled with biblical Christianity.

    ABP News 2010

  • Through reportedly very effective in working with Muslims, the method has detractors who say it crosses a line between "contextualization" -- embracing Christianity in ways that are culturally relevant in a given society -- and "syncretism" -- a fusion of two different belief systems that cannot be reconciled with biblical Christianity.

    ABP News 2010

  • Through reportedly very effective in working with Muslims, the method has detractors who say it crosses a line between "contextualization" -- embracing Christianity in ways that are culturally relevant in a given society -- and "syncretism" -- a fusion of two different belief systems that cannot be reconciled with biblical Christianity.

    ABP News 2010

  • Through reportedly very effective in working with Muslims, the method has detractors who say it crosses a line between "contextualization" -- embracing Christianity in ways that are culturally relevant in a given society -- and "syncretism" -- a fusion of two different belief systems that cannot be reconciled with biblical Christianity.

    Biblical Recorder njameson 2010

  • Through reportedly very effective in working with Muslims, the method has detractors who say it crosses a line between "contextualization" -- embracing Christianity in ways that are culturally relevant in a given society -- and "syncretism" -- a fusion of two different belief systems that cannot be reconciled with biblical Christianity.

    Biblical Recorder njameson 2010

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