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