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  • Violence & the Bible for Normal People

    A Guide to Biblical Texts of Terror

    This brilliantly accessible and engaging book canvasses one of the heaviest themes in the Bible, examining portrayals of violence in its many forms. Unlike so many accessible Bible studies, Violence & the Bible for Normal People resists the temptation to provide "neat and tidy" theological solutions to some of the most challenging texts in the Bible, instead naming them for what they are and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception

    Series series T&T Clark Handbooks
    This volume explores the range and richness of sexualities evoked in the biblical texts and their reception history. Contributors utilise theoretical and hermeneutical approaches to engage with different aspects of sexualities in/and the Bible, including the beliefs, behaviours, and bodies that haunt both the texts and their interpretive traditions.The contributors cover themes that have ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles

    Series series Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible
    In this fascinating book, Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture.The author considers the devotionals, commentaries, and advice sections placed throughout these Bibles, which offer teen girl readers life advice on topics such as friendships, body image, and how to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Eve

    Edited by Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Gender
    The Routledge Companion to Eve is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection which explores the history of interpretation that surrounds Eve’s character in both religious writings and cultural texts.The primary themes discussed in the volume include the religious, historical, and cultural ideologies that have influenced interpretations of Eve, as well as the cultural impact of these ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Theology as Threshold

    Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand

    Series series Decolonizing Theology
    What thresholds of theology would we cross if we engage the aches and despairs, wisdoms, and hopes in and of Aotearoa New Zealand and the neighboring sea of islands? What thresholds need to be jarred or moved (threshold as opening), probed and raised (threshold as limit)? This book engages these questions in two parts: “(re)Locating Theological Studies” contains essays that interrogate the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts

    Edited by Caroline Blyth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication.Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of philosophers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and scholars of religion and the Bible, the volume investigates the ways that spirit possession ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama

    Murderous Texts

    Series series Scriptural Traces
    The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale

    The Lost Seduction

    Series series Playing the Texts
    The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

    Christian Perspectives

    Series series Religion and Radicalism
    This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence. Each chapter explores the various roles that Christian theologies, teachings, and practices have played in shaping contemporary understandings of gender violence and in sanctioning rape-supportive cultural belief systems and practices. Our contributors explore this topic from a range ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion. Each chapter considers the ways that religious texts, theologies, and traditions engage with contemporary cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, gender violence, and rape culture. Particularly, they interrogate the multifaceted roles that religious texts and teachings can have in challenging, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

    Biblical Perspectives

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture

    Papers by Australian Women Scholars in the Evangelical Tradition

    Series series Australian College of Theology Monograph Series
    "In my bibliographies there are no women in the evangelical tradition, and no Australian women scholars." This unique volume addresses this gap, with eighteen biblically rich and academically rigorous chapters by established and emerging Australian women scholars in the evangelical tradition. The authors consider our relationship with the land and Indigenous peoples, neighborhood, embodiment, (dis ... Read more

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