Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (eBook)

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland. She is co-editor of the Bible and Critical Theory journal, as well as founding member of the Shiloh Project, an interdisciplinary research group studying gender violence and religion.Emily Colgan is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, and contributor to the Shiloh Project.Katie B. Edwards is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Sheffield. She is current co-editor of the Biblical Reception journal, and founding member of the Shiloh Project.

Chapter 1: Introduction – Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards Chapter 2: It’s All about Eve: Women’s Attitudes to Gender-Based Violence in Samoa – Penelope Schoeffel, Ramona Boodoosingh, and Galumalemana Steven Percival Chapter 3: The Impact of Colonization and Christianization on Gender Violence in the Pacific Islands – Jean Louis Rallu Chapter 4: Thursdays in Black: Localized Responses to Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand – Harriet Winn Chapter 5: Violence of Mind, Body, and Spirit: Spiritual and Religious Responses Triggered By Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide – Breann Fallon Chapter 6: Rape Culture in Sermons on Divorce – Valerie Hobbs Chapter 7: “Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts”: Transphobia, Symbolic Violence, and Conservative Christian Discourse – Caroline Blyth and Prior Tadhg McRae Chapter 8: LGBT Affirmation and Identity in Christian Teachings and Church Communities – David Hare Chapter 9: A Theology of Rape: Plundering the Woman’s Body in Deut. 21:10-14 and Louis John Steele’s Spoils to the Victor – Caroline Blyth and Jane Davidson-Ladd Chapter 10: Reinscribing Rape: Tracing Connections between the Experience of Women and Land in Biblical and Contemporary Texts – Emily Colgan Chapter 11: Rabbinic Understandings of Marital Rape in the Talmud – Mari Rethelyi