Religion in Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367785857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str.

Mary Nyangweso; Jacob K. Olupona

Opis

This book builds on work that examines the interactions between immigration and gender-based violence, to explore how both the justification and condemnation of violence in the name of religion further complicates our societal relationships.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  2 The Rights, Our Rights: A Critical Response to Homosexuality and Violence in Nigeria  3 Intimate Partner Violence Among Immigrant Latina Women  4 Gendered Oppression and Sanctions within African Initiated Churches in Europe: The Case of Amsterdam  5 The Paradox of Cultures: Violence against women and the German immigration debate before and after New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne  6 Cultures in Contrast: LGBTQ Movements and Post-Soviet Religious Resurgence in the Republic of Georgia  7 Religion, Gender-Based Violence and the Rights of the Girl Child in Kenya  8 Religion, Culture, and Family Violence among the Yoruba of Nigeria  9 Gender-Based Violence: The Case of the Babukusu of Bungoma Kenya  10 Religion and Reproductive Health in Africa: An Exploration of Christian Ethics with a Focus on Abortion  11 Polished Violence: Changing Notions about the Spirituality of the Todↄlε (Vagina) in Popular Nzema Indigenous Religious Philosophy  12 A Critical Engagement of Botho/Ubuntu and Mt. 25:35 in the Debate of the Provision of ARV’s to cross-border migrants in Botswana  13 The Horror or Honor Killings – An Indian Experience: A Case study of Rizwanur Rahman and Priyanka Todi  14 The Question of Healing and Forgetting: Disturbing Realities in Short Stories of Ritu Menon and Uravashi Bhutalia  15 Immigration and Gender-Based Violence in the West  16 From Africa to America: Religio-cultural Influence on Nigerian Immigrants in a Foreign Land  17 Clerics and Community Based Organizations as Agents of Social Change  18 Conclusion

O autorze

Mary Nyangweso is Associate Professor and J. Woolard and Helen Peel Distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. She is the author of Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (2014) and Female Circumcision: the Interplay Between Religion, Gender, and Culture in Kenya (2007).

Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of several books, including City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination (2011).