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Ecclesiastical Policies Versus Lived Social Relationships: Gender Parity, Attitudes, and Ethics

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This chapter discusses differences in ecclesiastical policies and social relationships as they are lived in the religious setting, with regard to gender parity, attitudes, and ethics. It is held that violent abuse and abusive behavior towards girls and women stem from misogyny in its diverse forms. Examination of misogyny in religion is discussed for classical and ancient Greece, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers, and feminist theory. An analysis is made of protecting the abuser and sacrificing the abused woman, help for abused female persons, and ethics of dealing with abused girls and women, and the need for required programs in sensitivity building about abuse of girls and women.

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    Carole A. Rayburn Ph.D., M.Div.

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Rayburn, C. (2015). Ecclesiastical Policies Versus Lived Social Relationships: Gender Parity, Attitudes, and Ethics. In: Johnson, A. (eds) Religion and Men's Violence Against Women. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2266-6_3

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