Religion and Rape Culture – The Shiloh Project

Legitimising Sexual Violence: Contesting Toxic Theologies that Valorise Suffering as Redemptive

by George Zachariah on April 9, 2022

George Zachariah is a lay theologian of the Mar Thoma Church. He has been working as a theological educator for the last two decades in India and in other countries. Currently, he is serving Trinity

Vocation and Violence: The Church and #MeToo

by Miryam Clough on January 20, 2022

Miryam Clough’s book, Vocation and Violence: The Church and #MeToo is part of the Routledge Focus series (Rape Culture, Religion

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

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. Rape is implied. Sexual slavery described in broad strokes. Euphemisms abound to explain scenes in

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

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

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