The Language of Battered Women: A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal TheologiesSUNY Press, 01.01.2004 - 273 Seiten This study of battered women living in a shelter offers a rhetorical analysis of survivors personal theologies. Author Carol L. Winkelmann holds that while it is virtually ignored in the domestic violence literature, the Christian heritage of many battered women plays a significant, if complicated, role in their language, thoughts, and lives. The women s religious faith serves not only to sustain them through periods of profound suffering, but also to develop solidarity with other culturally-different women in the shelter. Designed to assist women to greater independence, the shelter actually functions as a culture of surveillance where women turn to one another and to their faith to cope with the trauma of violence. To heal, the women engage in dialogue that is dense in religious imagery, talking about the relationship of God and the church to suffering and evil. At the same time, these women also acknowledge that organized religion is very much involved in the maintenance of patriarchal marriage and its attendant abuses in their own lives. Together, battered women are sometimes able to construct creative theological responses to the problem of suffering and evil. A mix of religious and secular languages compels them to devise new ways of thinking about their role in family, church, and society. |
Inhalt
I STAND ALL AMAZED | 1 |
ILL BE SCARED FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD THE PERVASIVENESS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | 15 |
HERE WE WOMEN SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER THE WOMENS HOUSE AS SHELTER AND SOCIAL ORDER | 27 |
SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP WOMENS ANGUISH WOMENS PAIN | 53 |
I SIT IN THE LORDS WAY THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF SUFFERING | 79 |
IN A SPIRITUAL WAY GOD BRINGS JUSTICE BATTERED WOMEN AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL | 101 |
IN THE BIBLE IT CAN BE SO HARSH SHELTER WOMEN TALK ABOUT RELIGION | 121 |
WAITING ON GOD CAN BE A HARD THING SUFFERING AND THE PHASE OF HEALING | 145 |
THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS PREVAILETH MUCH LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HEALING | 165 |
IF GOD WERE A WOMAN IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL LOCAL THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE | 185 |
TAKE ME TO MY SISTERS HOUSE | 217 |
NOTES | 233 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 253 |
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Language of Battered Women, The: A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies Carol L. Winkelmann Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2012 |
The Language of Battered Women: A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies Carol L. Winkelmann Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
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