Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence. Each chapter explores the various roles that Christian theologies, teachings, and practices have played in shaping contemporary understandings of gender violence and in sanctioning rape-supportive cultural belief systems and practices. Our contributors explore this topic from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including theology, gender and queer studies, cultural studies, pastoral care, and counseling. Together, the chapters in this volume testify to the considerable influence that Christianity has had, and continues to have, in directing conversations within the Christian tradition around gender violence and rape culture. They therefore invite readers to engage fruitfully in these conversations, fostering transformative dialogues with the Christian community about our shared responsibility to tackle the current global crisis of gender violence.

Auteur

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Emily Colgan is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand.

Katie B. Edwards is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Sheffield, UK.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards

Chapter 2: Let Him Romance You: Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Literature Emily Colgan

Chapter 3: Men's Ministries and Patriarchy: From Sites of Perpetuation to Sites of Resistance Robert Berra

Chapter 4: The Royal Commission Investigates Child Sexual Abuse: Uncovering Cultures of Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church Kathleen McPhillips

Chapter 5: The Church's Contribution to Domestic Violence: Submission, Headship, and Patriarchy Daphne Marsden

Chapter 6: Queer(y)ing the Violence of Christian Gender Discourses Jo Henderson-Merrygold

Chapter 7: Women's Bodies and War: Bonhoeffer on Self-Assertion Dianne Rayson

Chapter 8: Domestic Violence in Oceania: The Sin of Disobedience and the Violence of Obedience Richard A. Davis

Chapter 9: Witnessing Trauma: A Counsellor's Reflections on the Effects of Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence Lisa Spriggens

Chapter 10: There Are No Winners Here: A Pastor's Response to Date Rape in the Church Philip Halstead

Chapter 11: Imago Dei and Fantasy Religions: Defeating Violence against Women throughout the Realms Jordan Haynie Ware

Chapter 12: Responding to Stories of Trauma Lisa Spriggens