The War Came Alive Inside of Them: Moral Injury, Genocidal Rape, and Religion
Increasingly, scholarship on moral injury is expanding to include non-military personnel, and considers a violation of bodily integrity—for example, of civilian women who are targeted for sexual violence in warfare—as a particularly egregious harm. Moral injury discourse also extends beyond the indi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 479-494 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B genocidal rape B religion and sexual violence B Moral Injury |
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| Summary: | Increasingly, scholarship on moral injury is expanding to include non-military personnel, and considers a violation of bodily integrity—for example, of civilian women who are targeted for sexual violence in warfare—as a particularly egregious harm. Moral injury discourse also extends beyond the individual to the social context in which moral injury arises, its relational effects, and its utterly devastating impact on personhood, an impact frequently characterized as a “soul wound.” The intersection of genocidal rape—both as an individual and a group harm—with religion, as facilitating moral injury and restorative “soul repair,” exemplifies these trends. Although moral injury research rarely addresses the detrimental influences of religion or references the “soul” with precision, the discourse of moral injury does provide an opportunity for exploring the relationship between personhood and agency from the perspectives of those who inflict and are subjected to harm. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12366 |