Open Access

This section has links to work published under an open access licence. These publications are free to access and download. Any further use is governed by the respective open access licence. More full-text work is available in the ‘Full-text’ section.

Open access books

  • The Crucifixion of Jesus examines crucifixion as a form of torture, state terror, and sexual abuse. It reads recent accounts of torture alongside the presentation of crucifixion in the Passion narratives and other Greek and Roman sources.

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  • Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

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  • An accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation and a new contribution to how these challenges might be understood as a chronological sequence.

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Open access articles and chapters

  • ‘Alone and Naked’: Reading the Torture of Jesus alongside the Torture of Miriam Leitão' (2023

    This article in the International Journal of Public Theology examines the torture of Brazilian journalist Miriam Letião in 1972 and draws on her experience to reflect on the stripping of Jesus. Open access.

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  • Jon Sobrino and 'the Crucified People' (2023)

    This article in Religions discusses ‘the crucified people’ in the writings of Ignacio Ellacuría SJ and Jon Sobrino SJ. It examines the influence of Archbishop Oscar Romero and possible influence of Rutiio Grande SJ. Open access.

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  • El Abuso Espiritual de Religiosas. Caso Estudio: las Siervas del Plan de Dios (2022)

    This article with Rocío Figueroa in the Chilean journal Teología y vida (in Spanish) explores spiritual abuse through interviews with former members of the Servants of God’s Plan. A slightly abridged version is also available in English (2023). Open access.

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  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the Stripping of Jesus as Sexual Violence (2020)

    This article in the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies discusses Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. It shows how the stripping of Jesus should be understood as an example of abuse 'hidden in plain sight'. Open access.

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  • Recognising Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse: Responses from Sodalicio Survivors in Peru (2020)

    This article written with Rocío Figueroa in Religion and Gender interviews former members of the group Sodalicio who experienced sexual abuse, to explore their responses to naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. Open access.

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  • #MeToo Jesus: Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse (2019)

    This article written with Jayme R Reaves in the International Journal of Public Theology explores work that names Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse and some of the common responses to this. Open access.

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  • Crucificação e abuso sexual (2019)

    This article in the Brazilian journal Estudos Teológicos (in Portuguese) is an abridged version of ‘Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse’, Union Seminary Quarterly Review (1999).

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  • Violence against women in Samoa (2018)

    This research briefing written with Ramona Boodoosingh and Melanie Beres in Women’s Studies Journal provides information about the context of violence against women (VAW) in Samoa. Open access.

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  • A Public Theology of Reconciliation (2017)

    This chapter in A Companion to Public Theology explores political and social reconciliation and why reconciliation has become an important concern within public theology. Open access.

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  • Silent No More: Sexual Violence in Conflict as a Challenge to the Worldwide Church (2014)

    This article in the South African journal Acta Theological discusses the Tearfund report Silent No More (2011) and its challenge to the worldwide church. Open access.

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  • Unspeakable Violence: The Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala (2006)

    This chapter in Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America compares the truth commission reports from El Salvador (1993) and Guatemala (1999). Open access.

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  • The Theology of Reconciliation and the “Recovery of Memory Project” in Guatemala (2006)

    This chapter in Explorations in Reconciliation examines the commitment to truth and memory in the Inter-diocesan Recovery of Memory Project (1995-98) in Guatemala. Open access.

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  • Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse (1999)

    This article in Union Seminary Quarterly Review uses Latin American torture reports to examine Roman crucifixions as instruments of state terror which provided opportunities for sexual abuse. Open access.

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Open access spotlight

  • #MeToo Jesus: Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse (2019)

    This article written with with Jayme R Reaves in the International Journal of Public Theology explores work that names Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. Open access.

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  • Public Theology and Reconciliation (2017)

    This chapter in A Companion to Public Theology explores political and social reconciliation and why reconciliation has become an important concern within public theology. Open access.

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  • Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse (1999)

    This article in Union Seminary Quarterly Review examines Roman crucifixions as instruments of state terror, forms of torture, and opportunities for sexual abuse. Open access.

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