Rape Culture and Religious Studies

Rhiannon Graybill is W.J. Millard professor of religion and associate professor of religious studies at Rhodes College. Beatrice Lawrence is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Seattle University. Meredith Minister is assistant professor of religion at Shenandoah University.

Introduction: Engaging Rape Culture, Reimagining Religious Studies

Rhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence

1. Reading Biblical Rape Texts beyond a Cop-Out Hermeneutics in the Trump Era

Susanne Scholz

2. Constructions of Hindu Mythology after the Rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey: Coupling Activism with Pedagogy

T. Nicole Goulet

3. Teaching Rape, Slavery, and Genocide in Bible and Culture

Gwynn Kessler

4. On #MosqueMeToo: Lessons for Nuancing and Better Implementing the Lessons of #MeToo

Kirsten Boles

5. Judges 19 and Non-Con: Sado-Kantian Aesthetics of Violence in the Tale of an Unnamed Woman

Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo

6. To Confess the Fundamental Marian Dogma: Postulating the Doctrine of Mary’s Reproductive Justice

Jeremy Posadas

7. Rape Culture in the Rabbinic Construction of Gender

Beatrice Lawrence

8. Sex and Alien Encounter: Rethinking Consent as a Rape Prevention Strategy

Meredith Minister

9. Good Intentions are Not Enough

Rhiannon Graybill