Religion in gender-based violence, immigration, and human rights
Introduction / Mary Nyangweso and Jacob K. Olupona -- Their rights, our rights: a critical response to homosexuality and violence in Nigeria / Danoye Oguntola-Laguda -- Intimate partner violence among immigrant Latina women / Sloane Burke Winkelman and Jody O. Early -- Gendered oppression within Afr...
| Summary: | Introduction / Mary Nyangweso and Jacob K. Olupona -- Their rights, our rights: a critical response to homosexuality and violence in Nigeria / Danoye Oguntola-Laguda -- Intimate partner violence among immigrant Latina women / Sloane Burke Winkelman and Jody O. Early -- Gendered oppression within African-initiated Christian churches in Europe: the case of Amsterdam / Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei -- The paradox of cultures: violence against women and the German immigration debate before and after New Year's Eve 2015 in Cologne / Petra Klub -- Cultures in contrast: LGBTQ movements and post-Soviet religious resurgence in the Republic of Georgia / Susan C. Pearce -- Religion, gender-based violence, and the rights of the girl child in Kenya / Mary Nyangweso and Mansi Trivedi -- Religion, culture, and family violence among the Yoruba of Nigeria / Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin and Elizabeth Ayoola Adeyemi-Adejolu -- Gender-based violence: the case of the Babukusu of Bungoma Kenya / Sychellus Wabomba Njibwakale -- Religion and reproductive health in Africa: an exploration of Christian ethics with a focus on abortion / Precious Nihorowa -- Polished violence: changing notions about the spirituality of the vagina in popular Nzema indigenous religious philosophy / Genevieve Nrenzah -- A critical engagement of botho/ubuntu and Mt 25:35 in the debate on the provision of antiretroviral drugs to cross-border migrants in Botswana / Rosinah Mmannana Gabaitse and Simangaliso Raymond Kumalo -- The question of healing and forgetting: disturbing realities in short stories of Ritu Menon and Uravashi Butalia / Sonu Shiva -- Immigration and gender-based violence in the West / Mary Nyangweso and Jacob K. Olupona -- From Africa to America: religio-cultural influence on Nigerian immigrants in a foreign land / Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin and Tolu Adegbola Adefi -- Clerics and community-based organizations as agents of social change / Mary Nyangweso -- Conclusion / Mary Nyangweso and Jacob K. Olupona |
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| ISBN: | 0429487231 |