Religion and Intimate Partner Violence

Nancy Nason-Clark, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. She is the author of many books, including Men Who Batter (with Barbara Fisher-Townsend; Oxford University Press), No Place for Abuse and Refuge from Abuse (both with Catherine Clark Kroeger), and The Battered Wife. She is President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.Barbara Fisher-Townsend, PhD, is a retired contract academic instructor who now teaches online at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. She has co-edited (with Nancy Nason-Clark and others) several collections including Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home, Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes, and Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse and co-authored Men Who Batter (Oxford University Press).Catherine Holtmann, PhD, is the director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. The author of many articles and book chapters, she is currently completing a text on teaching religious diversity in the classroom and an edited collection (with Nancy Nason-Clark) on Religion, Gender and Family Violence.Stephen McMullin, PhD, is the Sheldon and Marjorie Fountain Associate Professor at Acadia Divinity College, in Canada, where he currently serves as Academic Dean. An ordained Baptist minister and author of many publications on abuse, he is currently completing research on two topics: women's lived experience in declining congregations and religious identity in a digital age.

As a clinician and researcher who has worked with IPV in the United States, Jordan, and Latin America, I can attest to the void of professional publications that consider the immense role that religion, dogma, beliefs, and religious communities have in determining the potential survival of victims and the recovery of abusers. This book offers concrete tools and information with which to better understand and work with the dual presence of IPV and religion in our work.

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Victims/Survivors Chapter 3: Abusers Chapter 4: Congregations Chapter 5: Training Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Resources Chapter 6: Collaborative Community Responses Appendix A: Research Projects and Methodology Appendix B: Publications of our Team ResourcesReferences Index