Barbara Fisher-Townsend
Biographic Data
| ID | 9159831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Fisher-Townsend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher-Townsend |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER-TOWNSEND B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Training Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Resources
Few religious leaders feel well equipped to respond to the needs of families impacted by abuse, and neither do recent seminary graduates. There is a chasm between the needs of pastors for preparation to respond to this critical social issue and current levels of training and preparation. This chapter explores the process and content of training religious leaders to respond compassionately and with best practices to abuse in their congregations an…
Collaborative Community Responses
Religious leaders can be part of the solution to domestic violence, not just part of the problem. This concept is rather difficult for many of those working in advocacy, the criminal justice field, or even intervention services to believe. Often, it has not been true in their experience of working with religious women, men, or children caught in the web of abuse. This chapter discusses many of the features of collaborative community-based respons…
Congregations
At its best, congregational life operates as a church family in which members celebrate with those who are joyous and weep with those who are suffering. They offer assistance, guidance, and friendship. They worship together and seek to live their lives according to the principles that they share. At its worst, congregational life operates as a dysfunctional family in which controlling, abusive behavior abounds, support is non-existent, jealousy a…
Victims/Survivors
Many women throughout the world have suffered the abuse of an intimate partner in a dating, common-law, or marital relationship. Focusing on data collected over many years, this chapter examines some of the contours of how women of faith talk about their experience of domestic violence and their search for practical and spiritual resources in its aftermath. The chapter examines issues of safety, fear, guilt, uncertainty, forgiveness, and creating…
Abusers
Focusing on data collected from interviews and focus groups with men who have acted abusively, this chapter tells the story of men’s lives by reflecting on their childhood, trouble with the law, altercations with family and friends, and their early days of intimacy. Most men who batter do not believe they are violent. This chapter focuses on how religious beliefs and practices intersect with, and impact, the experience of controlling, abusive beh…
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence is a complex, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women throughout the world. When violence exists in a relationship, safety is compromised, shame abounds, and peace evaporates. Violence is learned behavior, and it flourishes most when it is ignored, minimized, or misunderstood. When violence strikes the homes of deeply religious women, they are more vulnerable. They are more likely to believe that their abusive p…
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions
Chapter Seven. Women, Gender And Feminism In The Sociology Of Religion: Theory, Research And Social Action
Religion continues to be a powerful and empowering force in societies around the world. It helps to shape, and indeed is shaped by, the needs, dreams and ideals of men and women everywhere. As an analytical frame, gender is seldom at the center of conceptualizing religious experience or examining its impact upon believers, even less so, a self-conscious focus on women that begins and ends with feminist epistemologies at the core. While various th…
An Overview of the Characteristics of the Clients at a Faith-Based Batterers' Intervention Program
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the role of faith-based services to meet the social and practical needs of the American populace. The research upon which this paper is based represent the first ever attempt to document empirically the characteristic of men who sought assistance from a faith-based batterers' intervention program in the United States. Analyzing closed case files from 1059 men who have been involved in the batte…
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An Overview of the Characteristics of the Clients at a Faith-Based Batterers' Intervention Program
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the role of faith-based services to meet the social and practical needs of the American populace. The research upon which this paper is based represent the first ever attempt to document empirically the characteristic of men who sought assistance from a faith-based batterers' intervention program in the United States. Analyzing closed case files from 1059 men who have been involved in the batte…
Chapter Seven. Women, Gender And Feminism In The Sociology Of Religion: Theory, Research And Social Action
Religion continues to be a powerful and empowering force in societies around the world. It helps to shape, and indeed is shaped by, the needs, dreams and ideals of men and women everywhere. As an analytical frame, gender is seldom at the center of conceptualizing religious experience or examining its impact upon believers, even less so, a self-conscious focus on women that begins and ends with feminist epistemologies at the core. While various th…
Training Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Resources
Few religious leaders feel well equipped to respond to the needs of families impacted by abuse, and neither do recent seminary graduates. There is a chasm between the needs of pastors for preparation to respond to this critical social issue and current levels of training and preparation. This chapter explores the process and content of training religious leaders to respond compassionately and with best practices to abuse in their congregations an…
Collaborative Community Responses
Religious leaders can be part of the solution to domestic violence, not just part of the problem. This concept is rather difficult for many of those working in advocacy, the criminal justice field, or even intervention services to believe. Often, it has not been true in their experience of working with religious women, men, or children caught in the web of abuse. This chapter discusses many of the features of collaborative community-based respons…
Congregations
At its best, congregational life operates as a church family in which members celebrate with those who are joyous and weep with those who are suffering. They offer assistance, guidance, and friendship. They worship together and seek to live their lives according to the principles that they share. At its worst, congregational life operates as a dysfunctional family in which controlling, abusive behavior abounds, support is non-existent, jealousy a…
Victims/Survivors
Many women throughout the world have suffered the abuse of an intimate partner in a dating, common-law, or marital relationship. Focusing on data collected over many years, this chapter examines some of the contours of how women of faith talk about their experience of domestic violence and their search for practical and spiritual resources in its aftermath. The chapter examines issues of safety, fear, guilt, uncertainty, forgiveness, and creating…
Abusers
Focusing on data collected from interviews and focus groups with men who have acted abusively, this chapter tells the story of men’s lives by reflecting on their childhood, trouble with the law, altercations with family and friends, and their early days of intimacy. Most men who batter do not believe they are violent. This chapter focuses on how religious beliefs and practices intersect with, and impact, the experience of controlling, abusive beh…
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence is a complex, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women throughout the world. When violence exists in a relationship, safety is compromised, shame abounds, and peace evaporates. Violence is learned behavior, and it flourishes most when it is ignored, minimized, or misunderstood. When violence strikes the homes of deeply religious women, they are more vulnerable. They are more likely to believe that their abusive p…
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions
Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Domestic violence (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)