Shame, Sin, Mental Illness, and a Feminist Theology of Agency

Downie, Alison

doi:10.1080/23312521.2019.1694461

Journal of Disability & Religion

2019

DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2019.1694461

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Shame, Sin, Mental Illness, and a Feminist Theology of Agency

Alison Downie

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“… 8. I disagree with Webb’s implication that these negative attitudes are limited to lay perspectives, as I have argued elsewhere. See Downie (2020). …”

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The Sin of Being Human? Christian Theological Response to Mental Illness

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Although the term mental illness is problematic, it is unavoidable for those most deeply harmed by it. In contrast to some current theological responses to mental illness, fully intersectional responses recognize not only gender, race, and class but also religion as a factor in some mental illness experience. A panentheistic theological response begins with a relational ontology, understands bodily diversities as part of finitude, and affirms the already-beloved identity of persons living with mental illness. This starting point of original blessing rather than original sin dismantles stigma rather than obscuring it through associating mental illness with the Fall. A theology of Spirit as that which opens to and empowers possibilities within repeated losses and turmoil responds to mental illness without minimizing suffering.

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Theology and Women’s Agency in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana

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2023

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a growing problem in sub-Saharan Africa that limits women’s agency. Various studies have found that cultural norms and religion sustain women’s experiences of IPV, inspiring various theories among feminist scholars and within religion on women’s agency. This study determines whether and how theology contributes to the agency of IPV survivors. I draw upon constructivist grounded theory to inductively analyze the stories of thirteen abused Christian women in a mainline church in southern Ghana. My findings indicate that multiple systems, including informal social support networks, constrain survivors while simultaneously serving as conditions for their personal faith and individually constructed theologies. Indeed, these serve as catalysts to their self-enactments and emerging agency. These findings provide nuance to existing (and contested) conceptions of agency.

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Shame, Sin, Mental Illness, and a Feminist Theology of Agency

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The Sin of Being Human? Christian Theological Response to Mental Illness

The Sin of Being Human? Christian Theological Response to Mental Illness

Theology and Women’s Agency in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana

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