This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence. Each chapter explores the various roles that Christian theologies, teachings, and practices have played in shaping contemporary understandings of gender violence and in sanctioning rape-supportive cultural belief systems and practices. Our contributors explore this topic from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including theology, gender and queer studies, cultural studies, pastoral care, and counseling. Together, the chapters in this volume testify to the considerable influence that Christianity has had, and continues to have, in directing conversations within the Christian tradition around gender violence and rape culture. They therefore invite readers to engage fruitfully in these conversations, fostering transformative dialogues with the Christian community about our shared responsibility to tackle the current global crisis of gender violence.
Chapter 1: Introduction Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards
Chapter 2: Let Him Romance You: Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Literature Emily Colgan
Chapter 3: Mens Ministries and Patriarchy: From Sites of Perpetuation to Sites of Resistance Robert Berra
Chapter 4: The Royal Commission Investigates Child Sexual Abuse: Uncovering Cultures of Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church Kathleen McPhillips
Chapter 5: The Churchs Contribution to Domestic Violence: Submission, Headship, and Patriarchy Daphne Marsden
Chapter 6: Queer(y)ing the Violence of Christian Gender Discourses Jo Henderson-Merrygold
Chapter 7: Womens Bodies and War: Bonhoeffer on Self-Assertion Dianne Rayson
Chapter 8: Domestic Violence in Oceania: The Sin of Disobedience and the Violence of Obelă,
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