SBL Press recommends that scholarly research methods be lowercased unless they are part of an academic department, bibliographic reference, or program unit name.
archaeology
canonical criticism
feminist criticism
form criticism
ideological criticism
rhetorical criticism
reception history
social-scientific criticism
sociorhetorical interpretation
source criticism
womanist interpretation
but
Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics (program unit)
Department of Reception History (academic department)
Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse (book title)
Acronyms based on these methods should be in all caps. For example:
| SRI | sociorhetorical interpretation |
For guidelines on how to format program units, meetings, and fields of study, see our post here.
