XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Religion, Gender and Family Violence

RC22 Sociology of Religion (host committee)

Language: English

The United Nations has declared that physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner is the most common form of violence against women in the world today (UN, 2011). Issues related to religion and family violence are of particular importance, given the persistently high rates of family violence around the world and the debates concerning honour crimes and domestic violence fueled by Islamophobia.  The us/them binary between native-born and immigrants in contemporary public discourse depict men from ethno-religious minority groups as inherently dominant and women as essentially submissive.   Research on family violence from a feminist perspective argues that it is rooted in imbalances in power, thus a focus on the structuring of gender within religious groups is an important consideration.  Papers from scholars working from or within different faith perspectives, such as Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity and other religious groups are invited to submit paper proposals.