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Religion and Intimate Partner Violence - Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions (Hardcover)
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Religion and Intimate Partner Violence - Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions (Hardcover)
Series: Interpersonal Violence
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Intimate partner violence is a complex, ugly, fear-inducing reality
for large numbers of women around the world. When violence exists
in a relationship, safety is compromised, shame abounds, and peace
evaporates. Violence is learned behavior and it flourishes most
when it is ignored, minimized, or misunderstood. When it strikes
the homes of deeply religious women, they are: more vulnerable;
more likely to believe that their abusive partners can, and will,
change; less likely to leave a violent home, temporarily or
forever; often reluctant to seek outside sources of assistance; and
frequently disappointed by the response of the religious leader to
their call for help. These women often believe they are called by
God to endure the suffering, to forgive (and to keep on forgiving)
their abuser, and to fulfill their marital vows until death do us
part. Concurrently, many batterers employ explicitly religious
language to justify the violence towards their partners, and
sometime they manipulate spiritual leaders who try to offer them
help. Religion and Intimate Partner Violence seeks to navigate the
relatively unchartered waters of intimate partner violence in
families of deep faith. The program of research on which it is
based spans over twenty-five years, and includes a wide variety of
specific studies involving religious leaders, congregations,
battered women, men in batterer intervention programs, and the army
of workers who assist families impacted by abuse, including
criminal justice workers, therapeutic staff, advocacy workers, and
religious leaders. The authors provide a rich and colorful
portrayal of the intersection of intimate partner violence and
religious beliefs and practices that inform and interweave
throughout daily life. Such a focus on lived religion enables
readers to isolate, examine, and evaluate ways in which religion
both augments and thwarts the journey towards justice,
accountability, healing and wholeness for women and men caught in
the web of intimate partner violence.
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