Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (eBook)

Biblical Perspectives

Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Katie B. Edwards (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
XV, 220 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-70669-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the Bible's ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bible's complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of the global crisis of gender violence.

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland. Recent publications include Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale (2017). She is co-editor of the Bible and Critical Theory journal, and 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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction – Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards Chapter 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious – Lucy Skerratt Chapter 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture – Johanna Stiebert Chapter 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence – Teguh Wijaya Mulya Chapter 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study – Jessica M. Keady Chapter 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women – Julie Kelso Chapter 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium – Yael Klangwisan Chapter 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 – David Tombs Chapter 9: “To Ransom a Man’s Soul”: Male Rape and Gender Identity in Outlander and “The Suffering Man” of Lamentations 3 – Emma Nagouse Chapter 10: Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel – James E. Harding Chapter 11: Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX – Susanne Scholz Chapter 12: Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand – Emily Colgan and Caroline Blyth

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Religion and Radicalism
• Reihe/Serie: Religion and Radicalism
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 220 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: consent • Domestic violence • Patriarchy • Rape • Religion and Gender • Sexual behaviour • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 3-319-70669-1 / 3319706691
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-70669-6 / 9783319706696