domestic violence and Marian devotion in Papua New Guinea
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Raffia
- Magazine Year
- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Hermkens, Anna-Karina
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, seksueel geweld, gender, Mariaverering, Melanesië
- Description
- More than half of the women in Papua New Guinea face domestic violence. Many of these women turn to the Virgin Mary for help. Author shows how, in the urban setting of Port Moresby and Madang, Christianity and in particular Marian devotion, is deployed in response to sexual and gender based violence. As is shown, Mary's role is in fact ambiguous as she both empowers and desempowers women.