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.

滥用上帝：在 #metoo 时代阅读圣经是一个由经验丰富的学术研究人员、教会实践者和主要利益相关者慈善机构组成的协作网络，共同开发当代研究，以应对人们对性别暴力日益增长的认识和关注，并影响性别暴力的改变围绕圣经和基督教背景下的虐待行为的学术研究议程。索菲亚网络的《关注差距》报告（2019）最近表明，尽管英国教会中女性占 65%，但其中 62% 的女性在教会中经历过某种形式的性别歧视。这些数据，再加上 Refuge 报告称，在 Covid-19 大流行期间全球封锁和关键支持服务削减之后，基于性别的暴力激增，这意味着从事幸存者支持工作的研究人员和专业人员比以往任何时候都更加重要共同推动基督教社区内围绕虐待行为的文化变革。拟议的网络将以三种关键方式回应这一相关背景。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，该网络将举办两次座谈会，主题由我们的利益相关者选择——《圣经》和强制控制以及《圣经》和超男子气概。这些活动将学术界与从业者配对，共同撰写反思性、协作性的研究论文。在此过程中，该网络将引领实践知情研究，该研究的方向来自教会和慈善从业者，他们在基督徒幸存者的生活经历及其与圣经文本的关系方面拥有专业知识。第三，在这项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，以及用于圣经学习或小组支持教会的工作。本材料将提供有关如何以圣经研究领域当代研究支持的方式敏感地对待幸存者的需求来处理解决虐待和/或性暴力问题的圣经文本的建议。虽然在学术圣经研究背景下挑战圣经文本所引发的性别关键问题已经做了相当多的工作，但相对而言，关于这些文本对性虐待和家庭虐待幸存者的影响的研究或开发却很少。基督教信仰的承诺，甚至更少旨在鼓励学术界、教会和慈善从业者之间合作的工作。我们旨在开发的资源将通过利用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预防性别方面的经验来满足英国的这一迫切需求基于暴力。