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Contents

Acknowledgements VII
Notes on Contributors VIII
Introduction 1
Catherine Holtmann
Part 1 Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence
1 Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in Families 21
Steve McMullin
2 Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family Violence 38
Catherine Holtmann
3 The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”: Corporal Punishment and the Move Towards Non-violent Discipline in Christian Parenting 60
Susan Nunn and Emma Robinson
4 Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter Experiences 84
Jolyne H. Roy
Part 2 Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence
5 Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained Glass 109
Nancy Nason-Clark
6 Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: “A big part of who we are is the spiritual part” 125
Barbara Fisher-Townsend
7 Guru Pedophiles”, Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations Concerning “Cults”/NRMs, 1993–2017 146
Susan J. Palmer
Part 3 Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism
8 The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce : Static or Dynamic? 165
Pascale Fournier and Victoria Snyers
9 The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women’s Everyday Struggles 188
Pascale Fournier, Farah Malek-Bakouche, Eve Laoun
10 In the Name of God? ‘Get’ Refusal as Domestic Abuse 209
Yael Machtinger
Conclusion 235
Nancy Nason-Clark
Index 247
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