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.

“虐待上帝：在#metoo时代读圣经”是一个由经验丰富的学术研究人员、教会从业者和主要利益相关者慈善机构组成的合作网络，共同致力于发展当代研究，以回应对基于性别的暴力日益增加的认识和关注，并在基督教背景下围绕圣经和虐待的学术研究议程产生影响。索菲亚网络的“关注差距”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。这一数据，再加上避难所报告称，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，全球封锁后基于性别的暴力激增，导致关键支持服务削减，这意味着，参与支持幸存者的研究人员和专业人员共同努力，在基督教社区内改变虐待文化，比以往任何时候都更加重要。拟议的网络将以三个关键方式对这一有关情况作出反应。首先，它将促进学术界、教会和慈善从业者之间的跨机构对话。其次，该网络将举办两场讨论会，主题由我们的利益相关者选择——圣经和强制控制以及圣经和超级男子气概。这些活动将使学者与实践者结对，共同撰写反思性、合作性的研究论文。在这样做的过程中，该网络将引领实践知情研究的道路，它从教会和慈善机构的从业者那里获得指导，他们对基督教幸存者的生活经历及其与圣经文本的关系有专门知识。第三，在这项新的学术研究的基础上，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，以及用于圣经学习或教会的小组支持工作。本材料将提供关于如何处理处理虐待和/或性暴力的圣经文本的建议，并以一种得到当代圣经研究领域研究支持的方式，敏感地处理幸存者的需求。虽然在学术圣经研究背景下，对圣经文本提出的性别批判问题进行了大量的研究，但相对而言，这些文本对那些有个人基督教信仰承诺的性暴力和家庭暴力幸存者的影响的研究或发展很少，而旨在鼓励学术，教会和慈善从业者之间合作的工作就更少了。我们旨在开发的资源将通过借鉴当代学术奖学金，以及教会从业者和慈善机构在理解圣经文本如何被用来促进和防止基于性别的暴力方面的经验，来回应英国国内的这一关键需求。