Religion & Violence – A Day of Events (8 October 2025, University of Leeds) by Johanna Stiebert on September 14, 2025 share 1.1K
Mothers, Whores, and Brides: Towards Possible Modes of Reading Responsibly in the Context of Abuse and its Cover-up (The Example of John’s Revelation)
The Bible is Full of Horrors – That’s Why it Should be Required Reading for Today’s Children by Meredith Warren on October 11, 2017 share 10.1K Melvyn Bragg branded the decline of the King James Bible in the UK “a disgrace”. The writer and broadcaster suggested read more
Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study by Jessica Keady on October 5, 2017 share 18.9K Jessica M. Keady graduated from the University of Manchester and is Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University read more
Rape Culture Denial – A Response by Johanna Stiebert on September 27, 2017 share 19.1K Introduction When I search on Amazon Books for publications on rape culture, the first item to pop up is Why read more
The Lamentation of Jamie Fraser: Outlander, Male Rape and an Intertextual Reading of Lamentations 3 by Emma Nagouse on September 11, 2017 share 22K The following post is a shortened and abbreviated version of a forthcoming chapter in the Gender Violence, Rape Culture, and read more
Counter-Narratives: Rizpah and the “Comfort Women” Statue by Samantha Joo on August 17, 2017 share 11.2K Samantha Joo is an independent scholar who has previously taught at Seoul Women’s University (Korea), as well as Coe College read more
Handmaids and Jezebels: Anaesthetising the Language of Sexual Violence by Emma Nagouse on July 30, 2017 share 17.6K I recently spoke to a friend about the Hulu adaption of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. As we continued to read more
Lost in the “Post”: Rape Culture and Postfeminism in Admen and Eve by Caroline Blyth on July 27, 2017 share 12.4K A slightly longer version of this post originally appeared as an article in a special issue of the Bible and read more
Susanna and the Elders, Restored by Artist Kathleen Gilje by Johanna Stiebert on July 18, 2017 share 27.6K Kathleen Gilje is a US art restorer and artist best known for her technique of appropriating famous paintings in ways read more
The Handmaid’s Tale as a Legitimate Reading of Genesis? by Alison Joseph on July 9, 2017 share 51.1K The new Hulu show “A Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel of the same title, depicts a read more
Shiloh Project Research Visit to the Universities of Botswana and KwaZulu-Natal by Johanna Stiebert on July 5, 2017 share 10.7K In March 2017 Katie Edwards and I travelled to Botswana and South Africa for one week to make a presentation read more