Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

1. Introduction
Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, Katie B. Edwards

2. It’s All About Eve: Women’s Attitudes to Gender-Based Violence in Samoa
Penelope Schoeffel, Ramona Boodoosingh, Galumalemana Steven Percival

3. The Impact of Colonization and Christianization on Gender Violence in the Pacific Islands
Jean Louis Rallu

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

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

6. Rape Culture in Sermons on Divorce
Valerie Hobbs

7. “Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts”: Transphobia, Symbolic Violence, and Conservative Christian Discourse
Caroline Blyth, Prior McRae

8. LGBT Affirmation and Identity in Christian Teachings and Church Communities
David Hare

9. 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

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

11. Rabbinic Understandings of Marital Rape in the Talmud
Mari Rethelyi

Nyckelord: Religious Studies, Religion and Gender, Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior