The Shiloh Project

Value

£101,343.32

Partners and collaborators

Dr. Richard Newton (University of Alabama), Dr. Emily Colgan (Trinity College, Auckland), Dr. Chris Greenough (Edge Hill University)

Postgraduate students

Postgraduates are frequent contributors to the Shiloh Project blog. The podcast ‘The Bloody Bible’ is produced by PhD candidate Richard Bonifant (University of Auckland).

Description

Primary investigator originally Dr Katie Edwards, formerly of the University of Sheffield. 

The project focuses first, on exposing the connections between rape culture phenomena and biblical texts and second, on resisting the harm and violence that arises from these connections.

The project emphasises the presence and influence of the Bible in popular culture.

Impact

 

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The Bible, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo

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2022 Ed Conrad Memorial Lecture: Reading From the Lions' Den in Nairobi

Prof Johanna Stiebert third left) and Dr Emily Colgan (4th left) and two others (+ dog) at Trinity College, Auckland.

Professor Johanna Stiebert standing behind a lectern giving a presentation about Sacred Queer Stories in front of a screen.

  • There will be a series of Bible and Activism events 30 January to 1 February 2023 in Yorkshire 
  • The Shiloh Project blog
  • The Shiloh Podcast
  • Noirthern (podcast)
  • The Bloody Bible (podcast)
  • We have developed a toolkit (edited by Emily Colgan and Caroline Blyth) that facilitates identification and prevention as well as survivor support for victims of sexual and gender-based abuse in church settings
  • We have commissioned and disseminated graphic art by Pia Alize to publicise gender-based sexualised violence in the Bible.
A poster of illustrations of gender-based sexualised violence in the Bible

A poster of illustrations of gender-based sexualised violence in the Bible examples

  • We have commissioned and disseminated posters created during the Covid pandemic for International Women’s Day 2021 to campaign against violence .
Poster of drawings of the Shiloh Project partners on a zoom call making a pledge for International Women's Day 2021

Poster of drawings of Shiloh project partners on a virtual call, raising their hands as part of a pledge for International Women's Day 2021

 

Publications and outputs

Johanna Stiebert is co-editor of the Routledge Focus series ‘Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible’. In this series three volumes by project leads and partners have appeared so far:

  • the inaugural volume by Johanna Stiebert, Rape Myths, the Bible and MeToo (London, New York: Routledge, 2020);
  • Chris Greenough, The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men (London, New York: Routledge, 2021)
  • Caroline Blyth, Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles (London, New York: Routledge, 2021)