Religious Commitment, Peace Activism, and Marital Violence in Quaker Families

Brutz, Judith L.; Allen, Craig

doi:10.2307/352035

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“…promote IPV (Adjei, 2015;Adjei & Mpiani, 2018). Despite the preponderance of research on the link between IPV and culture in general, a handful studies that are mostly conducted in Western societies have examined the role of religion as a crucial cultural variable in IPV (see (Brutz & Allen, 1986;Ellison et al, 1999). The findings of these studies are less conclusive about the role of religion in our understanding of IPV.…”

Section: Religion and Ipvmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Have Since Repented”: Discursive Analysis of the Role of Religion in Husband-to-Wife Abuse in Ghana

Adjei

Mpiani

2020

J Interpers Violence

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Religion has long been recognized as a powerful tool capable of shaping the lives of people in many societies. In this study, we draw insights from discursive psychology to explore the influence of religious beliefs and practices on the perpetration of husband-to-wife abuse and the entrapment of victims in Ghana. Semi-structured focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews were conducted with 40 participants, comprising 16 (60%) perpetrators (men), 16 (60%) victims (women), and eight (20%) key informants from rural and urban Ghana. Participants’ discursive accounts suggest that both perpetrators and victims invoke religious instructions on gender norms to legitimize male authority over women in marriage. While perpetrators construct husbands’ conjugal authority over their wives in terms of prescriptive religious norms, victims construct their entrapment in abusive relationships in terms of proscriptive theology of divorce in the bible. The double-edged role of religion in providing both motivational and inhibitory support for wife abusers is also discussed.

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Section: Religion and Ipvmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Have Since Repented”: Discursive Analysis of the Role of Religion in Husband-to-Wife Abuse in Ghana

Adjei

Mpiani

2020

J Interpers Violence

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“…Previous research has identified that the role religion plays in issues of intimate partner violence has not been afforded significant scrutiny in the research on domestic violence (Brutz & Allen, 1986;Ellison, Bartowski, & Anderson, 1999). However, there are a few studies that can be reviewed to determine the connections between ecclesiastical customs and partner abuse.…”

Section: Religious Groups and Intimate Partner Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Battered Black Women's Use of Religious Services and Spirituality for Assistance in Leaving Abusive Relationships

Potter

2007

Violence Against Women

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Though there is substantial rationale to consider any association between spirituality and religion and intimate partner violence, research in this area is particularly lacking. African Americans are known to utilize religion and spirituality at significant rates to deal with adversity. Accordingly, any investigation of Black women's methods of contending with abusive relationships would be deficient if it did not include an examination of the women's use of ecclesiastical resources. Using 40 semistructured in-depth interviews with battered Black women, this article explores the participants' successes and discontent with religion and spirituality to escape abuse.

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“…For example, in Behind Closed Doors, Strauss, Gelles, and Steinmetz (1980) found that "religion [i.e., denomination] per se has minimal influence on marital violence." But Brutz and Allen (1986) argue that religious commitment, not religious affiliation, is the source of religion's influence on marital violence.…”

Section: Family Issues Religious Beliefs and Religious Commitmentmentioning

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The Effects of Religious Fundamentalism and Religiosity on Preference for Traditional Family Norms*

Grasmick

Wilcox

Bird

1990

Sociological Inquiry

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This study examines the effects of religion on preference for a patriarchal family, one in which the husband makes decisions while the wife is subservient to him. The effects of both religious fundamentalism and personal religiosity are considered using a survey of adults in a Southwestern city. The analysis reveals a strong positive direct effect of adherence to a fundamentalist doctrine on support for the patriarchal family, but no direct effect of personal religiosity. An interaction effect of these two variables, reported in some other studies of the effect of religion on other family issues, is not found. The effect of religious fundamentalism is equal in magnitude to the effect of age, and greater than the effects of education, gender, family income, head of household occupational prestige, subjective class identification, race and rural background. With the exceptions of age and gender, religious fundamentalism serves as a crucial intervening variable in the relationships between these variables and endorsem.ent of patriarchal norms in the husband-wife relationship.

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Religious Commitment, Peace Activism, and Marital Violence in Quaker Families

Cited by 15 publications

References 14 publications

“I Have Since Repented”: Discursive Analysis of the Role of Religion in Husband-to-Wife Abuse in Ghana

“I Have Since Repented”: Discursive Analysis of the Role of Religion in Husband-to-Wife Abuse in Ghana

Battered Black Women's Use of Religious Services and Spirituality for Assistance in Leaving Abusive Relationships

The Effects of Religious Fundamentalism and Religiosity on Preference for Traditional Family Norms*

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