Books in the Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible series

In this fascinating book Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture.

By reading recent accounts of torture alongside the presentation of crucifixion in the Passion narratives and other Greek and Roman sources, this book examines crucifixion as a form of torture, state terror, and sexual abuse.

This interdisciplinary volume recontextualises biblical texts to explore how the relationship between sex/gender, power, and religion is constructed to produce a rape culture, linking religious history with contemporary conflicts to show the endurance of these concepts today.