Rape Culture and Religious Studies - Critical and Pedagogical Engagements

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

Rape Culture and Religious Studies explores how teachers and scholars in religion should respond to sexual violence and rape culture in classrooms, curriculums, and the community. The volume offers critical reflections and practical teaching strategies from leading experts working in a variety of institutional contexts and religious traditions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rhiannon Minister Graybill
• Con la collaborazione di: Rhiannon Graybill (Editore), Graybill Rhiannon (Editore), Beatrice Lawrence (Editore), Meredith Minister (Editore)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.04.2023
• EAN: 9781498562867
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6286-7
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altro; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Sexual abuse & harassment, Feminism & feminist theory, Sexual abuse and harassment, Feminism and feminist theory, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Social groups: religious groups and communities