Overview
- Editors:
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Caroline Blyth
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School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Emily Colgan
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Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand
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Katie B. Edwards
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Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- 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.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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- Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Katie B. Edwards
Pages 1-8
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- Penelope Schoeffel, Ramona Boodoosingh, Galumalemana Steven Percival
Pages 9-31
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- Caroline Blyth, Prior McRae
Pages 111-133
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- Caroline Blyth, Jane Davidson-Ladd
Pages 145-167
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Back Matter
Pages 213-222
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.
Reviews
“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
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School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Caroline Blyth
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Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand
Emily Colgan
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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.