Religion, Gender, and Family Violence: When Prayers are Not Enough

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence

1 Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in Families

2 Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family Violence

3 “The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”: Corporal Punishment and the Move Towards Non-violent Discipline in Christian Parenting

4 Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter Experiences

Part 2: Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence

5 Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained Glass

6 Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: “A big part of who we are is the spiritual part”

7 “Guru Pedophiles”, Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations Concerning “Cults”/NRMs, 1993–2017

Part 3: Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism

8 The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce : Static or Dynamic?

9 The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women’s Everyday Struggles

10 In the Name of God? ‘Get’ Refusal as Domestic Abuse

Conclusion

Index