Elaine Storkey - Faith, Feminism and Gender-Based Violence (N114)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The UN said recently that 'Gender-based violence is perhaps the most widespread and socially tolerated of human rights violations.' We spoke to philosopher, sociologist and theologian Elaine Storkey about the reasons behind this, and how the church should respond. This led on to a fascinating discussion about what it really means to be a man.

“Almost every society on earth practices some form of violence against women, which becomes institutionalised in that society. So for many [women] this is perfectly normal, there’s nothing odd about it. It’s just normal.” - Elaine Storkey

Interview begins at 3m 36s

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.1	Here we are again with Nomad podcast.
0:19.0	Our continuing pilgrimage, looking for signs of hope. Yeah.
0:23.4	We are in Cambridgeshire. To interview Elaine Storky. A philosopher, sociologist and Christian
0:32.7	feminist. Wow. She's lectured around the world, written numerous books. I've read a few of them, very, very well researched, very well written. She's lectured around the world, written numerous books.
0:40.7	I've read a few of them, very, very well researched, very well written.
0:45.7	She succeeded John Stott as the Executive Director of London Institute of Contemporary Christianity and served as the President of Tier Fund, an aid agency here in the UK.
0:50.8	She's written a lot about gender roles and equality and stuff which I've found very helpful
0:54.5	and of course she appeared on nomads 12 days of Christmas she did so she's now making a
1:00.9	triumphant return to the podcast yeah most recently she's written about violence against women in
1:06.5	her book scars across humanity okay incredibly well research book must have taken a years to write that thick book not especially but just a book Scars Across Humanity. Okay. Incredibly well-researched book.
1:12.4	Must have taken years to write that.
1:13.2	Thick book?
1:17.8	Not especially, but just absolutely jam-packed full of information.
1:18.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:20.1	It's tough read, though.
1:20.9	I can imagine.
1:21.7	I mean, it's easy.
1:31.7	Her writing style is very easy, but the content, what she's talking about. I mean, we, our regular listeners may recall, it's about 18 months ago, possibly two years ago,
1:37.8	we interviewed Gail Dines about abuse of women in pornography, another incredibly tough book to read.
1:43.1	Turns out that that's just a very small part of a much bigger story of the abuse of women, which Elaine Stalky does a brilliant job
1:46.0	of revealing in her book. I'll give you a quote, Gordo, just to set the scene. The UN recently
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