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Author Istratii, Romina, author.

Title Adapting gender and development to local religious contexts : a decolonial approach to domestic violence in Ethiopia / Romina Istratii
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 263 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge research in religion and development
Routledge research in religion and development.
Contents Introduction: the metaphysics of gender and development -- Linguistic and cosmological translation -- Intimate partner violence, gender and faith in Ethiopia -- The Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo tradition and the conjugal relationship -- Conjugal abuse conceptualisations and attitudes -- Marriage in the local normative framework -- Responses to conjugal abuse in the local institutional framework -- Faith, culture and social norms -- Faith, marriage and gendered expressions -- The individual, human nature and conjugal abuse -- Conclusion: beyond western ways
Summary This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. Responding to recent consensus that gender mainstreaming approaches have failed to produce their intended structural changes, Romina Istratii explains that gender and development analytical and theoretical frameworks are often constructed through western Euro-centric lenses ill-equipped to understand gender-related realities and human behaviour in non-western religious contexts and knowledge systems. Instead, Istratii argues for an approach to gender-sensitive research and practice which is embedded in insiders' conceptual understandings as a basis to theorise about gender, assess the possible gendered underpinnings of local issues and design appropriate alleviation strategies. Drawing on a detailed study of conjugal abuse realities and attitudes in two villages and the city of Aksum in Northern Ethiopia, she demonstrates how religious knowledge can be engaged in the design and implementation of remedial interventions. This book carefully evidences the importance of integrating religious traditions and spirituality in current discussions of sustainable development in Africa, and speaks to researchers and practitioners of gender, religion and development in Africa, scholars of non-western Christianities and Ethiopian studies, and domestic violence researchers and practitioners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Romina Istratii is currently Research Associate at the Department of Development Studies and the Centre of World Christianity, SOAS University of London, UK. She previously served as Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies. She has been an active member of the Decolonising SOAS Working Group, initiating the Decolonising Research Initiative on behalf of the SOAS Research Directorate. She is co-founder of Decolonial Subversions
Subject YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān -- Customs and practices
SUBJECT YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān fast (OCoLC)fst00520329
Subject Marriage -- Ethiopia
Family violence -- Ethiopia
Wife abuse -- Ethiopia
Marriage -- Religious aspects.
Family violence -- Religious aspects.
Wife abuse -- Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Third World Development.
Family violence
Family violence -- Religious aspects
Marriage
Marriage -- Religious aspects
Wife abuse
Wife abuse -- Religious aspects
Ethiopia
Form Electronic book
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