Religion and Gender-Based Violence: Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices

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Brenda Bartelink Chia Longman

Religion and Gender-Based Violence

Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices

Brenda Bartelink, Chia Longman, Tamsin Bradley

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication.

International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence against women, but clear answers as to why harmful practices persist are often slow to emerge. Theological research struggles to find strong links, yet religion is often referred to by local people as the reason for practices such as female cutting, male circumcision, early and forced marriage, nutritional taboos and birth practices, mandatory (un)veiling, harmful spiritual practices, polygamy, gender unequal marital and inheritance rights and so-called honour crimes. This book presents empirical cases of religious, non-religious and secular actors, including local and international governmental and non-governmental agencies in the fields of development, health and equality policies. Tracing their different understandings of how religion is entangled with gender-based violence both contextually as well as historically, the book sheds light on helpful and unhelpful as well as erroneous and harmful understandings of such practices in local and global perspectives.

Centralising the perspectives of women themselves, this book will be an important read for development practitioners and policy makers, as well as for researchers across religious studies, gender studies, and global development.

Edited by: Brenda Bartelink, Chia Longman, Tamsin Bradley
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781032158723
ISBN 10: 1032158727
Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brenda Bartelink is assistant professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen Netherlands. Chia Longman is associate professor of Gender Studies and the director of the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender, Ghent University, Belgium. Tamsin Bradley is professor of International Development at the University of Portsmouth, UK.