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Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements stages a critical engagement between religious texts and the problem of sexual violence. Rape and other forms of sexual violence are widespread on college and university campuses; they also occur in sacred texts and religious traditions. The volume addresses these difficult intersections as they play out in texts, traditions, and university contexts. The volumegathers contributions from religious studies scholars to engage these questions from a variety of institutional contexts and to offer a constructive assessment of religious texts and traditions.
List of contents
Introduction: Engaging Rape Culture, Reimagining Religious Studies
Rhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence
1. Reading Biblical Rape Texts beyond a Cop-Out Hermeneutics in the Trump Era
Susanne Scholz
2. Constructions of Hindu Mythology after the Rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey: Coupling Activism with Pedagogy
T. Nicole Goulet
3. Teaching Rape, Slavery, and Genocide in Bible and Culture
Gwynn Kessler
4. On #MosqueMeToo: Lessons for Nuancing and Better Implementing the Lessons of #MeToo
Kirsten Boles
5. Judges 19 and Non-Con: Sado-Kantian Aesthetics of Violence in the Tale of an Unnamed Woman
Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo
6. To Confess the Fundamental Marian Dogma: Postulating the Doctrine of Mary's Reproductive Justice
Jeremy Posadas
7. Rape Culture in the Rabbinic Construction of Gender
Beatrice Lawrence
8. Sex and Alien Encounter: Rethinking Consent as a Rape Prevention Strategy
Meredith Minister
9. Good Intentions are Not Enough
Rhiannon Graybill
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Edited by Rhiannon Graybill; Meredith Minister and Beatrice Lawrence - Contributions by Rhiannon Graybill; Meredith Minister; Beatrice Lawrence; Kirsten Boles; T. Nicole Goulet; Gwynn Kessler; Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo; Jeremy Posadas and Susanne Schol
