Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #metoo age

滥用上帝：阅读圣经

• 批准号: AH/W005182/1
• 负责人: Holly Morse
• 金额: $ 2.92万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW005182%2F1
• 关键词: Abusing; God; Reading; Bible; #metoo

Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #metoo age is a collaborative network of experienced academic researchers, church practitioners and key stakeholder charities working together to develop contemporary research that responds to increasing awareness of and concern about gender based violence, and to effect change on the academic research agenda around the Bible and abuse within a Christian context. The Sophia Network's 'Minding the Gap' report (2019) recently demonstrated that although women make up 65% of the church in the UK, 62% of these women have experienced some form of sexism in church. This data, along with Refuge's report of a surge in gender-based violence following global lockdowns and resultant cuts to key support services during the Covid-19 pandemic that means it is more crucial than ever that researchers and professionals engaged in the support of survivors work together to bring about culture change around abuse within Christian communities.The proposed Network will respond to this concerning context in three key ways. First, it will facilitate trans-instutitional conversations between academic and church and charity practionters. Secondly, the network will host two colloquia on topics selected by our stakeholders -- the Bible and coercive control and the Bible and hypermasculinity. These events will pair academics with pracitioners to develop reflective, collaborative research papers. In doing so, the network will lead the way on practice informed research, which takes its direction from church and charity practioners who have expertise on the lived experiences of Christian survivors and their relationship to biblical texts. Thirdly, building on the foundation provided by this new academic research, the network also aims to develop an education resource pack for use in schools and/or university chaplaincies in their work with survivors of gender based violence, as well for Bible study or small group support work in Churches. This material will offer recommendations on how to approach biblical texts that address abuse and/or sexual violence with sensitivity for survivors' needs in a way that is supported by contemporary research within the field of biblical studies. While there has been considerable work done on the gender critical issues that are raised by challenging biblical texts in an academic Biblical Studies context, there is comparably little research or development on the impact these texts have on survivors of sexual and domestic abuse who have a personal Christian faith commitment, and even less work aimed at encouraging collabortative work between academic, church, and charity practioners. The resources we aim to develop will respond to this critical need within the UK, by drawing upon both contemporary academic scholarship, as well as the experience of church practitioners and charities in understanding how biblical texts have been used to both contribute to and also prevent gender-based violence.

滥用神：阅读圣经在#metoo时代是一个合作网络的经验丰富的学术研究人员，教会从业人员和主要利益相关者的慈善机构共同努力，以发展当代研究，以应对日益增长的认识和关注基于性别的暴力，并影响改变学术研究议程周围的圣经和虐待在基督教背景下。索菲亚网络的《注意差距》报告（2019年）最近表明，尽管女性占英国教会的65%，但其中62%的女性在教会中经历过某种形式的性别歧视。沿着这些数据，以及Refuge的报告，即在全球封锁之后，基于性别的暴力激增，并导致在新冠肺炎大流行期间削减关键的支持服务，这意味着参与幸存者支持的研究人员和专业人士比以往任何时候都更加重要，他们需要共同努力，在基督教社区内围绕虐待问题实现文化变革。首先，它将促进学术界、教会和慈善机构之间的跨机构对话。第二，该网络将主办两次座谈会，讨论我们的利益攸关方选定的专题-《圣经》与强制控制以及《圣经》与超级男子气概。这些活动将使学者与实践者配对，以开发反思性的合作研究论文。在这样做的过程中，该网络将引领实践知情研究的方向，该研究从教会和慈善实践者那里获得指导，他们对基督教幸存者的生活经历及其与圣经文本的关系具有专业知识。第三，在这一新的学术研究提供的基础上，该网络还旨在开发一个教育资源包，供学校和/或大学牧师在与基于性别的暴力幸存者的工作中使用，以及供圣经学习或教会的小组支助工作使用。这份材料将提供建议，说明如何以圣经研究领域内当代研究支持的方式，敏感地对待涉及虐待和/或性暴力的圣经文本，以满足幸存者的需要。虽然在学术圣经研究背景下挑战圣经文本所提出的性别关键问题上做了大量工作，但这些文本对性虐待和家庭虐待幸存者的影响研究或发展很少，他们有个人的基督教信仰承诺，更少的工作旨在鼓励学术，教会和慈善实践者之间的合作。我们的目标是开发资源将响应这一关键需求在英国，通过借鉴当代学术奖学金，以及教会从业者和慈善机构的经验，了解圣经文本如何被用来促进和防止基于性别的暴力。