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Understanding the role of faith-based pastoral care in responding to domestic violence

This article provides an overview of the increased focus on the role of religion, religious leadership and faith-based organisations in ending gender-based violence including domestic violence.

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The Weaponization of Sexual Violence: Boko Haram’s Quest for Control Over Territories and Women’s Bodies

This paper examines Boko Haram through a feminist political economy perspective, utilizing primary and secondary data. It traces the group’s changing ideology by analyzing how it exploited gendered socio-economic structures.

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Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities

This article examines how Lutheran theology in Australia represents gender and frames women and femininity as a problem for the church.

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The Gendered Politics of State-Sanctioned Extremism: Evidence from a Study of Buddhist Protectionism

This article investigates a type of state-sanctioned extremism, wherein nationalist movements, supported to varying degrees by governments, seek to “protect” Buddhism across Asia.