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The Language of Battered Women
Carol L. Winkelmann
其他書名
A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Social Science / Sociology of ReligionSocial Science / Women's StudiesReligion / Christian Theology / ChristologyReligion / Christian Ministry / Discipleship
ISBN079148582X9780791485828
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yXVnRcLX-_IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)

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.