Religion in Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights - Paperback

by Mary Nyangweso (Editor), Jacob K. Olupona (Editor)

This book builds on work that examines the interactions between immigration and gender-based violence, to explore how both the justification and condemnation of violence in the name of religion further complicates our societal relationships.

Author Biography

Mary Nyangweso is Associate Professor and J. Woolard and Helen Peel Distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. She is the author of Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (2014) and Female Circumcision: the Interplay Between Religion, Gender, and Culture in Kenya (2007).

Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of several books, including City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination (2011).