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Bridging religious studies, gender & development and public health to address domestic violence: A novel approach for Ethiopia, Eritrea and the UK

弥合宗教研究和性别

基本信息

批准号：
MR/T043350/1
负责人：
Romina Istratii
金额：
$ 133.81万
依托单位：
School of Oriental and African Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT043350%2F1
关键词：
Bridging religious studies gender development

项目摘要

This project responds to problematic understandings and alleviation approaches to domestic violence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In recent decades, these have tended to prioritise Anglo-American epistemology and experience, and have oftentimes neglected or simplistically portrayed the influence of religious belief and spirituality in domestic violence experience. With this project, I aspire to consolidate a decolonial approach that prioritises local worldviews, integrates religio-cultural parameters more substantively in the ecological model of violence and leverages on theology and religious actors resourcefully as appropriate to each context.The project is informed by my decade-long experience in international development practice and unique specialisation in gender, religious & theology studies. It responds to previous gender-sensitive research with religious communities in sub-Saharan Africa and more recent investigations of intimate partner violence (IPV) among the Ethiopian Orthodox in Northern Ethiopia. These have consistently shown the importance of religious idiom in public and private life and the intersection with gendered norms, but especially tensions between theology and folklore understandings, with 'religion' being juxtaposed to 'culture' in intricate ways to preserve or discontinue pernicious behaviour. At the theoretical level, the proposed project aims to build the evidence base around the intersection of religious beliefs, human psychology and intimate partner behaviour, which is a highly under-theorised field dominated by industrialised societies' experience. I am especially interested in exploring how religious idiom may be used to provide psychosocial support to members of religious communities perpetrating or facing abuse. This increased understanding is important for the development of more integrated, religio-culturally sensitive domestic violence services in traditional religious societies, such as Ethiopia and Eritrea, but also in societies with diverse migrant populations, such as the UK.As a pilot, the project will engage the prevalent Amharic- and Tigrigna-speaking Orthodox populations in Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, in Asmara, Eritrea and the surrounding countryside, and three cities in the UK (London, Manchester, Birmingham). In Northern Ethiopia, the project aims to build the preparedness of Orthodox clergy to respond to domestic violence and to sensitise the community of believers by improving literacy in Orthodox theology to reverse folklore understandings of gender and marriage that contribute to IPV. In Eritrea, the project seeks to contextualise domestic violence in religio-cultural worldviews, while building capacity among religious and secular stakeholders to respond better. An overarching objective is to cultivate more nuanced understanding among the various stakeholders in order to reverse simplistic representations that currently hinder integrated, collaborative and multi-sectoral approaches.The study seeks to employ knowledge and experience emanating from the Ethiopian and Eritrean communities to inform debates and approaches in the UK domestic violence sector, which is increasingly called to cater to diverse communities. The project will combine an ethnographic look into the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox population and research with other migrant communities with a country-wide investigation into the UK domestic violence sector. The aim is to establish the degree to which domestic violence providers, migrant community organisations and religious stakeholders from diverse religious communities currently recognise the importance of and engage with religio-cultural parameters to respond to victims and perpetrators. Knowledge exchange and public engagement activities comprise the project's fundamental tool for building bridges among secular and religious stakeholders, who still lack a common platform for mutual understanding and substantive collaboration.

该项目针对低收入和中等收入国家 (LMIC) 对家庭暴力的有问题的理解和缓解方法做出回应。近几十年来，这些观点倾向于优先考虑英美认识论和经验，而常常忽视或简单化地描绘宗教信仰和灵性对家庭暴力经历的影响。通过这个项目，我渴望巩固一种非殖民化的方法，优先考虑当地的世界观，将宗教文化参数更实质性地融入暴力的生态模型中，并根据每种情况灵活地利用神学和宗教参与者。该项目的基础是我十年来在国际发展实践方面的经验以及在性别、宗教和神学研究方面的独特专业知识。它回应了先前对撒哈拉以南非洲宗教社区进行的性别敏感研究以及最近对埃塞俄比亚北部埃塞俄比亚东正教中亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的调查。这些都一致地表明了宗教习语在公共和私人生活中的重要性以及与性别规范的交叉，尤其是神学和民俗理解之间的紧张关系，“宗教”以复杂的方式与“文化”并列，以保留或制止有害行为。在理论层面上，拟议的项目旨在围绕宗教信仰、人类心理学和亲密伴侣行为的交叉点建立证据基础，这是一个以工业化社会的经验为主的理论高度不足的领域。我特别感兴趣的是探索如何使用宗教习语为实施或面临虐待的宗教社区成员提供社会心理支持。这种加深了解对于在埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚等传统宗教社会以及英国等移民人口多元化的社会中发展更加综合、对宗教文化敏感的家庭暴力服务非常重要。作为试点，该项目将吸引埃塞俄比亚北部阿克苏姆、厄立特里亚阿斯马拉和厄立特里亚北部阿克苏姆地区流行的阿姆哈拉语和提格里尼亚语东正教人口参与。周边乡村以及英国三个城市（伦敦、曼彻斯特、伯明翰）。在埃塞俄比亚北部，该项目旨在帮助东正教神职人员做好应对家庭暴力的准备，并通过提高东正教神学素养，扭转导致家庭暴力的民间传说对性别和婚姻的理解，提高信徒社区的认识。在厄立特里亚，该项目力求将家庭暴力纳入宗教文化世界观的背景，同时建设宗教和世俗利益相关者的能力，以更好地应对。总体目标是在各利益相关者之间培养更细致的理解，以扭转目前阻碍综合、协作和多部门方法的简单化表述。该研究旨在利用埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚社区的知识和经验为英国家庭暴力部门的辩论和方法提供信息，该部门越来越多地被要求迎合不同社区的需求。该项目将对埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚东正教人口进行人种学研究，并与其他移民社区进行研究，并对英国家庭暴力部门进行全国范围的调查。目的是确定家庭暴力提供者、移民社区组织和来自不同宗教社区的宗教利益相关者目前在多大程度上认识到宗教文化参数的重要性并参与其中，以应对受害者和施暴者。知识交流和公众参与活动是该项目在世俗和宗教利益相关者之间架起桥梁的基本工具，这些利益相关者仍然缺乏相互理解和实质性合作的共同平台。