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

ISBN-13: 9781138596986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 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