Rape Culture and Religious Studies explores how teachers and scholars in religion should respond to sexual violence and rape culture in classrooms, curriculums, and the community. The volume offers critical reflections and practical teaching strategies from leading experts working in a variety of institutional contexts and religious traditions.

Introduction: Engaging Rape Culture, Reimagining Religious StudiesRhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence 1. Reading Biblical Rape Texts beyond a Cop-Out Hermeneutics in the Trump EraSusanne Scholz2. Constructions of Hindu Mythology after the Rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey: Coupling Activism with PedagogyT. Nicole Goulet3. Teaching Rape, Slavery, and Genocide in Bible and CultureGwynn Kessler4. On #MosqueMeToo: Lessons for Nuancing and Better Implementing the Lessons of #MeTooKirsten Boles 5. Judges 19 and Non-Con: Sado-Kantian Aesthetics of Violence in the Tale of an Unnamed WomanMinenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo 6. To Confess the Fundamental Marian Dogma: Postulating the Doctrine of Mary's Reproductive Justice Jeremy Posadas7. Rape Culture in the Rabbinic Construction of GenderBeatrice Lawrence 8. Sex and Alien Encounter: Rethinking Consent as a Rape Prevention Strategy Meredith Minister 9. Good Intentions are Not EnoughRhiannon Graybill