List of Contributors
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword by Shelly Rambo
Introduction
How to Read This Volume
Method in Feminist Trauma Theologies
1 The Voices of the Marys: Towards a Method in Feminist Trauma Theologies 3
Karen O’Donnell
2 ‘I Have the Power in My Body to Make People Sin’: The Trauma of Purity Culture and the Concept of ‘Body Theodicy’ 21
Katie Cross
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Violence against Women
3 Belief: A Practice of Resistance to the Alchemy of Reality into Incoherence 43
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
4 Body Remember: Reflecting Theologically on the Experience of Domestic Abuse through the Poetry of Kim Moore 63
Manon Ceridwen James
5 ‘I Breathe Him in with Every Breath I Take’: Framing Domestic Victimization as Trauma and Coercive Control in Feminist Trauma Theologies 80
Alistair McFadyen
6 Reading Gomer with Questions: A Trauma-informed Feminist Study of How the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence and the Presence of Religious Belief Shape the Reading of Hosea 2.2–23 112
Kirsi Cobb
7 Violating Women in the Name of God: Legacies of Remembered Violence 134
Rosie Andrious
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Christian Communities and Trauma
8 Women in the Pulpit: A History of Oppression and Perseverance 161
Leah Robinson
9 The Precarious Position of Indian Christian Women in Cinema and Everyday Life 180
Sonia Soans
10 Broken or Superpowered? Traumatized People, Toxic Doublethink and the Healing Potential of Evangelical Christian Communities 195
Natalie Collins
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Post-Traumatic Remaking
11 The Changing Self: Forming and Reforming the Imago Dei in Survivors of Domestic Abuse 225
Ally Moder
12 Losing a Child: A Father’s Methodological Plight 248
Santiago Piñón
13 The Trauma of Mothers: Motherhood, Violent Crime and the Christian Motif of Forgiveness 266
Esther McIntosh
Index of Names and Subjects