The Battered Committed Christian Woman: The Value Difference

Griffin, Jeanne; Maples, Mary Finn

doi:10.1002/j.2161-007x.1997.tb00394.x

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“…They are told to stay with the Manetta et al 7 man, and are reminded of their vows to stay with their partner for better or for worse (Pagelow and Johnson, 1988;Smullens, 2001). Women often stay with abusive partners because of their religious beliefs and values (Griffin and Maples, 1997;Peake, 2001). These religious beliefs and values center around upholding the covenant of marriage.…”

Section: Church Attitudes Toward Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other reasons women stay with abusive partners are the ideas that women should be submissive to their husbands (Alsdurf and Alsdurf, 1988;Griffin and Maples, 1997;Stotland, 2000) and that women are perceived as men's possessions (Van Natta, 2001). Nason-Clark (1997) points out that some researchers have identified issues that clergy should be conscious of when counseling abuse victims and perpetrators.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In reality, religions differ on whether or not women should be subservient with some calling for total submissiveness and others for egalitarianism (Bartjowski, 2001;Griffith and Harvey, 1998;Loewenberg, 1988). The people who believe in submissiveness use the passage, "the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church" to justify submission and for some men ultimately justify abuse (Griffin and Maples, 1997). They do not look further into the Bible to find scriptures that justify equality such as I Corinthians 7, verse 4 which states "the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does" (Meeks, 1993).…”

Section: Church Attitudes Toward Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Church–Does it Provide Support for Abused Women? Differences in the Perceptions of Battered Women and Parishioners

Manetta¹,

Bryant²,

Cavanaugh³

et al. 2003

Journal of Religion & Abuse

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The role of religion in the prevention, fostering, and awareness of domestic violence is an understudied area in society. The Christian church has an enormous impact on the lives of over 111 million people in the United States, and could be a vehicle for helping stem the problem of abuse against women in society. This paper uses a South Carolina sample to describe the perceptions of 199 parishioners and 57 battered women attitudes toward whether church teaching contributes to domestic violence, whether women should be submissive toward their husbands, and formal services offered by churches. Different perceptions emerged. More battered women believed church teaching contributed to domestic violence. Neither group believed that women should be submissive toward their spouse. Also included is a description of the similarities and differences in formal services the two groups believed was available to battered women. KEYWORDS.Domestic violence and religion, battered women, parishioners, women's submissiveness, services to victims of domestic violence

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Section: Church Attitudes Toward Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Church Attitudes Toward Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Church Attitudes Toward Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Church–Does it Provide Support for Abused Women? Differences in the Perceptions of Battered Women and Parishioners

Manetta¹,

Bryant²,

Cavanaugh³

et al. 2003

Journal of Religion & Abuse

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“…Thus, if divorced, a religious woman may fear for her placement in the afterlife (Ferraro & Johnson, 1983) or perceive remarriage as adulterous. If she wanted to end the relationship, tensions over how divorce affects her children, extended family, and her religious community create for her plausible (if not moral) grounds for returning home (Griffin & Maples, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

Abused Conservative Christian Wives: Treatment Considerations for Practitioners

Nash

Faulkner

Abell

2013

Counseling and Values

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Through narrative, the authors explore the faith-based challenges of a physically and emotionally abused Conservative Christian wife to illustrate her ideological assessment of agency in a violent marriage and her concerns about the religious consequences of escape. To offset religious teachings that obstruct the safety and self-assertion of abused Conservative Christian wives, the authors offer practitioners practical, idiomatic recommendations through which clients can reassess the limitations of common religious schemas, including conceptions of wifely submission, marital permanence, infinite forgiveness, and pious suffering. The religious community's responses to abused wives, particularly those of the clergy, are also discussed.

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“…These beliefs and practices include male domination over women, superior male morality, suffering as a female Christian virtue, and the importance of marital reconciliation (Heggen, 1996). Griffin and Maples (1997) suggested that FPC beliefs and values strongly influenced women in h s population who remained in abusive partnerships.…”

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Fundamentalist Protestant Christian Women: Recognizing Cultural and Gender Influences on Domestic Violence

Foss

Warnke

2003

Counseling and Values

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The authors use multicultural, family process and structure, and gender concepts to provide a framework for understanding the supports for and barriers to mental health that are experienced by abused fundamentalist Protestant Christian (FPC) women. For FPC women who are victims of domestic violence. gender, culture, and family process and structure may intersect to prohibit or facilitate healthy life choices. Suggestions for providing counseling services to this population are given.

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The Battered Committed Christian Woman: The Value Difference

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

The Church–Does it Provide Support for Abused Women? Differences in the Perceptions of Battered Women and Parishioners

The Church–Does it Provide Support for Abused Women? Differences in the Perceptions of Battered Women and Parishioners

Abused Conservative Christian Wives: Treatment Considerations for Practitioners

Fundamentalist Protestant Christian Women: Recognizing Cultural and Gender Influences on Domestic Violence

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