Rape Culture and Religious Studies

Critical and Pedagogical Engagements

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 Scholz

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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 216 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-6284-3 • Hardback • April 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-6286-7 • Paperback • April 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)

978-1-4985-6285-0 • eBook • April 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)

Series: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts

Subjects: Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Sociology of Religion, Social Science / Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Rape Culture and Religious Studies

Critical and Pedagogical Engagements

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Summary

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.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 216 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-6284-3 • Hardback • April 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-6286-7 • Paperback • April 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)

978-1-4985-6285-0 • eBook • April 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)

Series: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts

Subjects: Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Sociology of Religion, Social Science / Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Author

Rhiannon Graybill is W.J. Millard professor of religion and associate professor of religious studies at Rhodes College.

Beatrice Lawrence is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Seattle University.

Meredith Minister is assistant professor of religion at Shenandoah University.

Table 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

Reviews

Framed by the current #MeToo movement, Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements seeks to start conversations within religious studies about “sexual violence, especially sexual violence on college and university campuses” (2). Whether or not the authors explicitly frame their discussion around classroom contexts, they all provide valuable food for thought about engaging students in meaningful conversations about sexual violence, rape culture, and religion in both their studies and their everyday lives.

— Reading Religion

This volume offers crucial intersectional analyses of sexual violence and rape culture from the disciplinary space of religious studies. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to engage in critically-informed conversations on sexual violence in college classrooms.
— Nami Kim, Spelman College