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Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

Christian Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Blyth

    1. School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. Emily Colgan

    1. Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand

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  3. Katie B. Edwards

    1. Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  • Examines the influence of Christianity on the topics of gender violence and rape culture
  • Offers interdisciplinary insights
  • Encourages transformative dialogues within the Christian community

Part of the book series: Religion and Radicalism (RERA)

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About this book

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. 

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Katie B. Edwards
    Pages 1-8

  3. Let Him Romance You: Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Literature

    • Emily Colgan
    Pages 9-26

  4. Men’s Ministries and Patriarchy: From Sites of Perpetuation to Sites of Resistance

    • Robert Berra
    Pages 27-51

  5. The Royal Commission Investigates Child Sexual Abuse: Uncovering Cultures of Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church

    • Kathleen McPhillips
    Pages 53-71

  6. The Church’s Contribution to Domestic Violence: Submission, Headship, and Patriarchy

    • Daphne Marsden
    Pages 73-95

  7. Queer(y)ing the Epistemic Violence of Christian Gender Discourses

    • Jo Henderson-Merrygold
    Pages 97-117

  8. Women’s Bodies and War: Bonhoeffer on Self-Assertion

    • Dianne Rayson
    Pages 119-141

  9. Domestic Violence in Oceania: The Sin of Disobedience and the Violence of Obedience

    • Richard A. Davis
    Pages 143-158

  10. Witnessing Trauma: A Counsellor’s Reflections on the Effects of Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence

    • Lisa Spriggens
    Pages 159-175

  11. There Are No Winners Here: A Pastor’s Response to Date Rape in the Church

    • Philip Halstead
    Pages 177-194

  12. Imago Dei and Fantasy Religions: Defeating Violence against Women throughout the Realms

    • Jordan Haynie Ware
    Pages 195-210

  13. Responding to Stories of Trauma

    • Lisa Spriggens
    Pages 211-215

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 217-225
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Caroline Blyth

  • Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand

    Emily Colgan

  • Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Katie B. Edwards

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

  • Book Subtitle: Christian Perspectives

  • Editors: Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Katie B. Edwards

  • Series Title: Religion and Radicalism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72685-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72684-7Published: 17 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10252-4Published: 25 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72685-4Published: 29 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4234

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4242

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 225

  • Topics: Religion and Gender, Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior

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