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Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

Interdisciplinary 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 diverse articulations and interpretations of gender violence and rape culture from various interdisciplinary contexts.
  • Features contributors from a range of disciplines.
  • Explores the ways that geographical and cultural locations can shape and direct interactions and the responses to rape culture.

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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

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

  3. It’s All About Eve: Women’s Attitudes to Gender-Based Violence in Samoa

    • Penelope Schoeffel, Ramona Boodoosingh, Galumalemana Steven Percival
    Pages 9-31

  4. The Impact of Colonization and Christianization on Gender Violence in the Pacific Islands

    • Jean Louis Rallu
    Pages 33-49

  5. Thursdays in Black: Localized Responses to Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand

    • Harriet Winn
    Pages 51-70

  6. Violence of Mind, Body, and Spirit: Spiritual and Religious Responses Triggered by Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide

    • Breann Fallon
    Pages 71-86

  7. Rape Culture in Sermons on Divorce

    • Valerie Hobbs
    Pages 87-110

  8. “Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts”: Transphobia, Symbolic Violence, and Conservative Christian Discourse

    • Caroline Blyth, Prior McRae
    Pages 111-133

  9. LGBT Affirmation and Identity in Christian Teachings and Church Communities

    • David Hare
    Pages 135-144

  10. 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, Jane Davidson-Ladd
    Pages 145-167

  11. Reinscribing Rape: Tracing Connections Between the Experience of Women and Land in Biblical and Contemporary Texts

    • Emily Colgan
    Pages 169-194

  12. Rabbinic Understandings of Marital Rape in the Talmud

    • Mari Rethelyi
    Pages 195-212

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-222
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About this book

This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion. Each chapter considers the ways that religious texts, theologies, and traditions engage with contemporary cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, gender violence, and rape culture. Particularly, they interrogate the multifaceted roles that religious texts and teachings can have in challenging, confirming, querying, or redefining socio-cultural understandings of rape culture and gender violence. Unique to this volume, authors explore the topic from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, theology, biblical studies, gender and queer studies, politics, modern history, art history, linguistics, religious studies, and English literature. Together, these interdisciplinary approaches resist the tendency to oversimplify the complexity of the connections between religion, gender violence, and rape culture; rather, the volume offers readers a multi-vocal and multi-perspectival view of this crucial subject, inviting readers to think deeply about it in light of the global crisis of gender violence.

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“Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives represents a collection of works by differing authors that delves thoroughly, yet succinctly, into the historical and contemporary perspectives surrounding gender violence throughout religious texts and customs, with a plethora of research behind them. … The collection addresses issues relevant to areas such as theology, biblical and literature studies, gender and women’s studies, as well as psychology and healthcare.” (Abigail F. Smith, Journal of Interprofessional Care, jicareblog.org, September, 2018)​

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. 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.

Bibliographic Information

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

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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

  • Series Title: Religion and Radicalism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72224-5

  • 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: 978-3-319-72223-8Published: 27 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10171-8Published: 08 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72224-5Published: 19 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4234

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4242

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

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

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