Religion, Gender, and Family Violence

Catherine Holtmann, Ph.D. (2013) is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of New Brunswick and the Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and is co-author of Religion and Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions (Oxford, 2018).Nancy Nason-Clark, Ph.D. (1984) is retired Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Men Who Batter (Oxford University Press, 2015) which she co-authored with Barbara Fisher-Townsend and Religion and Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions (Oxford, 2018) which she co-authored with Fisher-Townsend, Holtmann and Steve McMullin.

"Studies of the intersection of family/partner violence and religion remain in short supply. This volume is an important addition to the field. It should be read by clergy and religious leaders who want to learn more about family violence and by anti-violence advocates who want to better serve diverse populations. It should be included in libraries of universities that support research into this critical area." - V. Jacquette Rhoades, University of Indianapolis, in: Reading Religion, September 2018

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Catherine HoltmannPart 1: Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence1 Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in FamiliesSteve McMullin2 Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family ViolenceCatherine Holtmann3 “The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These”: Corporal Punishment and the Move Towards Non-Violent Discipline in Christian ParentingSusan Nunn and Emma Robinson4 Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter ExperiencesJolyne H. RoyPart 2: Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence5 Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained GlassNancy Nason-Clark6 Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: “A big part of who we are is the spiritual part”Barbara Fisher-Townsend7 “Guru Pedophiles”, Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations concerning “Cults”/nrms, 1993–2017Susan J. PalmerPart 3: Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism8 The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce : Static or Dynamic?Pascale Fournier and Victoria Snyers9 The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women’s Everyday StrugglesPascale Fournier, Farah Malek-Bakouche, Eve Laoun10 In the Name of God? ‘Get’ Refusal as Domestic AbuseYael MachtingerConclusion Nancy Nason-Clark