Religion and Rape Culture – The Shiloh Project

Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Book Review by Rabbi Dr. Barbara Thiede

by Johanna Stiebert on August 18, 2019

The recently published book Rape Culture and Religious Studies:Critical and Pedagogical Engagements is edited by (Shiloh contributor) Rhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence. This review is by Barbara Thiede, Department of Religious Studies, UNC Charlotte. Rape

Fuzzy, messy, icky: The edges of consent in biblical rape narratives and rape culture (video)

by Rhiannon Graybill on October 15, 2018

This paper was the closing keynote address for The Religion and Rape Culture Conference. Abstract: This paper explores the fuzzy, messy,

The Handmaid’s Jail: Framing sexual assault and rape narratives in biblical comics (video)

by Zanne Domoney-Lyttle on October 3, 2018

Abstract: With an increase in comic book representations of biblical stories on our bookshelves, discussions surrounding how to approach retellings

Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction (video)

by Miryam Sivan on September 21, 2018

Abstract: When American Jewish writers write about sexual violence against Jewish women in the Holocaust, they talk around the subject.

Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction

by Miryam Sivan on September 14, 2018

Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction by Dr Miryam Sivan Miryam Sivan lectures at the University of

Religion as Gender Politics

by Daphne Hampson on September 10, 2018

Abstract: Far from being an unintended consequence of those ideologies which are religions, the subordination of women may be central to their raison d’être. The form that religions (primarily the Abrahamic religions) have taken would

Research as Resistance: Survival strategies for researching violence

by Rachel Starr on September 4, 2018

Abstract: Feminist research into violence, within sacred texts, traditions and contemporary contexts, tends to be motivated by a desire to

“A man cannot in law be convicted of rape upon his own wife”: Custom, Christianity, Colonialism, and Sexual Consent in Forced Marriage Cases, British colonial Africa, 1932-1945

by Rhian Keyse on August 30, 2018

The mid-twentieth century saw an upsurge in campaigns around forced and early marriage in British colonial Africa, as missionaries, feminist

“My prayers weren’t being answered”: The Intersection of Religion and Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Claire Cunnington on August 28, 2018

Abstract: Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this paper draws on a thematic analysis of an online qualitative survey (n=143) and

“The Evil Sirens”: Evangelical Christian Culture, Pornography and the Perpetuation of Rape Culture

by Natalie Collins on August 23, 2018

Abstract: The current waves of feminism (or tapestry strands per Professor Liz Kelly’s analysis) are particularly divided on whether pornography

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