How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence Against Women [electronic resource] : Explaining the Role of Religion in Shaping Cultural Assumptions about Gender

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Michael (Michael Francis)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Violence--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Violence in men.

Women--Violence against.

Violence--Catholic Church--Religious aspects.

Violence.

Women.

Catholic Church.

Local Subjects:

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Violence--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Violence in men.

Women--Violence against.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book articulates a Roman Catholic theological understanding concerning salvation in Jesus Christ that can be transformative of physical and sexual male violence against women across the world. It identifies key elements for a working definition of such complex violence, and highlights the pervasiveness and seriousness of the violence with quantitative data. For the Catholic believer the violence is graver still because a Catholic component can often be identified in the violence. This component is illustrated in the book by qualitative data about Catholic women who suffered incest. Employ

Contents:

How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence Against Women Explaining the Role of Religion in Shaping Cultural Assumptions About Gender; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Male Kyriarchal Biosocial-Gender-Related Violence Against Women; 1. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW); 1.1 Understanding DEVAW; 2. A Liberation-Feminist Perspective Concerning the Violence; 2.1 Sources of the Violence; 2.2 Embodied Appearance as the Site of the Violence

2.3 Summarising the Character of the Violence3. Illustrative Data Concerning Male Kyriarchal Biosocial-Gender-Related Violence Against Women; 3.1 The Feminisation of Premature Death; 3.2 Rape; 3.3 Trafficking; 3.4 Physical Violence; 3.5 Effects of the Violence; 4. Conclusion; Chapter Two: The Situation of Violence and Theology; 1. Understanding Theology and its Method; 1.1 Defining Theology; 1.2 The Two Basic Components in Doing Theology; 1.3 Functional Specialties; Chapter Three: Choosing and Developing a Meaning for Salvation

1. The Appropriateness of Understanding Male Violence against Women in terms of Salvation1.1 Privileged Interlocutors; 1.2 Understandings of Salvation by Catholic Women in Situations of Male Violence; 2. Constructing a Pertinent Transformative Understanding Concerning Salvation; 2.1 Understandings of Salvation in the Christian Scriptures and the Pertinent Situation of Violence; Chapter Four: Understanding Salvation from a Liberation-Feminist Theological Perspective; 1. Karl Rahner's Progressivist Theology and the Option to Transform Male Violence against Women

2. Gustavo Gutierrez's Theology of Liberation and the Option to Transform Male Violence Against Women3. Feminist Criticisms of Gutierrez's Theology of Liberation; 4. Gutierrez and the Situation of Women; 5. Gutierrez and a Feminist Perspective on Sin; 6. Concluding Reflections; Chapter Five: The Male Jesus as Saviour; 1. The Male Jesus as a Problem; 1.1 Male Privilege and the Male Jesus: Elements of the Problem; 1.2 The Lens of Violence; 2. A Response to the Problem of the Male Jesus; 2.1 Elizabeth Johnson; 2.2 Bernard Lonergan

2.3 The Efficacious Soteriological Appropriateness of the Male JesusChapter Six: John 7:53-8:11 and the Violent Death of Jesus; 1. Redemption in the Christian Tradition; 2. The Woman Threatened with Stoning / John 7:53-8:11; 2.1 Selecting the Text and Interpreting It; 2.2 Textual History; 2.3 Interpreting the Text; 3. The Woman's Story and the Death of Jesus; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-1863-6

OCLC:

823720310