Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

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.

“The book will be used for its individual essays rather than as a textbook on ‘rape culture and the Bible’. Each of the essays warrants careful reading and intentional sharing, particularly in a world reshaped by the Covid-19 pandemic in ways that have made rape cultures and their consequences even more evident.” (Gerald O. West, Journal of Theology for Southern  Africa, Issue 167, July, 2020)

• 1: Introduction.- 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious.- 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture.- 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence .- 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study.- 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women.- 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium.- 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 .- 9: “To Ransom a Man’s Soul”: Male Rape and Gender Identity in Outlander and “The Suffering Man” of Lamentations 3.- 10: Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel.- 11: Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX .- 12: Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence inAotearoa New Zealand.