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Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Viole
A brief genealogy of feminist thought around gender
Gender theory as a reflection of deeper metaphysics of humanity and gender
Western Euro-centrism in the paradigm of gender and development
Religion in gender and development discourse
Domestic violence in gender and development and public health theory
A closer look at the epistemological premises of gender-based violence research
Social norms and public health approaches
Accounting better for religious systems and the interface with human behaviour
Conducting gender-sensitive research within local religious societies
The study in Aksum and its approach
Concluding thoughts
Notes
Linguistic and cosmological translation
Revisiting feminist epistemologies in cross-cultural gender studies
A closer look at gender and religious studies
Integrating theology in religious studies
Theology-informed investigations in Ethiopia
Researching intimate partner violence in a safe and inclusive manner
Addressing the epistemological issues
Learning local languages
Making the ‘I’ visible in the research process
Integrating dialogical research methods
Notes
Intimate partner violence, gender and faith in Ethiopia
Directions in the scholarship and unaddressed questions
Women’s status in Ethiopia historically and in post-revolution Tigray
Gender-specific socialisation and the influence of the clergy
The legal framework on domestic violence and reported cultural influences
Research timeline and study areas
Notes
The Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo tradition and the conjugal relationship
A historical overview of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo Church
Doctrinal and theological foundations of the Church
The EOTC’s Judeo-Christian character
The EOTC’s variegated Patristic tradition
The EOTC’s exegetical tradition
The traditional Church education and exposure of clergy to theology
Teachings on man woman relations, marriage and the conjugal relationship
Man woman relations
Marriage and divorce
The conjugal relationship
An eclectic tradition with internal tensions
Notes
Conjugal abuse conceptualisations and attitudes
Researching conjugal abuse without a predefined terminology
Data on conjugal abuse
Participants’ discourses of harmful conjugal behaviour and situations
Situational or interactional abuse
Gender-related asymmetries
Physical violence
Serious conjugal crimes
Sexual coercion: a hardly ever discussed issue
Local attitudes toward harmful conjugal situations and behaviour
Notes
Marriage in the local normative framework
Terminological considerations
Local depictions of marriage and gender relations in the past and present
Marriage and spousal ideals and expectations
Kinship expectations and the role of the family in marriage
Irregular unions and changing relationship norms
Persisting and changing marriage norms and conjugal abuse
Notes
Responses to conjugal abuse in the local institutional framework
Local police and social courts
Local women’s associations
The mediation of family, elders and neighbours
The salience of the clergy in marriage
The discourses of rural clergy life and linkages with conjugal abuse
Marriage practices and virginity
Teachings about the conjugal relationship
Pastoral mediation of conjugal problems and laity responses
Notes
Faith, culture and social norms
Researching the local religio cultural cosmology
The haymanot/bahәl dyad vis-à-vis social norms
Position that pronounced faith as cultural heritage and moral norms
Position that pronounced faith as conscientious practice
Positions that emphasised faith as spiritual experience
Religious idiom and social norms
Religious gatherings, alcohol consumption and the bahәl/haymanot binary
Notes
Faith, marriage and gendered expressions
Perceptions about the influence of faith on conjugal behaviour
Gendered invocations of religious tradition and faith in marriage
Religious beliefs and faith in conjugal life and abusive situations
Faith in women’s coping with difficult marriages and in their responses to conjugal abuse
Faith in men’s decision making about conjugal behaviour
Notes
The individual, human nature and conjugal abuse
Ambiguous personality-based aetiologies of conjugal abuse
The natural dimensions of the human personality (bahri)
The relationship between individual parameters and the social dimension
The relationship between individual parameters and the spiritual dimension
Gendered personalities and implications for attitudes about conjugal abuse
Personality and relationship problems through a psychological lens
Notes
Beyond western Eurocentric lenses: contextualising conjugal abuse
Appropriate approaches for alleviating conjugal abuse in Aksum
Leveraging on theology and pastoral mediation
A more integrated approach
Wider implications and relevance of the study
Notes
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