Legal and Theological Justice for Abused Adolescent Girls
Theology and law share much in common, including a long history of justifying violence against women. Critics of legal and religious institutions need not look far to find texts offering evidence that both kinds of institutions are hopelessly mired in a patriarchal history that renders them obsolete...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1992
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1992, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 451-469 |
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| Summary: | Theology and law share much in common, including a long history of justifying violence against women. Critics of legal and religious institutions need not look far to find texts offering evidence that both kinds of institutions are hopelessly mired in a patriarchal history that renders them obsolete, and apparently unable to offer anything significant concerning justice for young women victims of abuse. These ancient texts unapologetically proclaim that young women were to be treated as property of their fathers or husbands:Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him, and said, "I beg you my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."—Genesis 19: 6-8.[W]hether it [rape of a female virgin] was within the city or in the open country or at night in the (public) street or in a garner or at a festival of the city, the father of the virgin shall take the wife of the ravisher of the virgin (and) give her to be dishonored; he shall not give her (back) to her husband (but) shall take her. The father shall give his daughter who has been ravished as a spouse to her ravisher.—Codex Hammurabi. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051209 |