1st Edition

Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking An Outrage Against Any Decent People

Edited By Lauren McGrow Copyright 2023
204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking that involves the sex industry. There are hundreds of religious organizations around the globe who minister with human trafficking survivors and sex workers, but what is really happening on the ground and how do theological beliefs support a... Read more

Introduction: An Outrage Against Any Decent People

Lauren McGrow

1 Abolition Mommas: Evangelical Women as Exceptional Citizens in the Fight to End "Global Sex Trafficking"

Carly Daniel-Hughes

2 Do You See This (Wo)man? Lessons Learned from Sex Workers

Hannah Estabrook

3 Walking with Women in Sex Work: An Appraisal of the Role of the Nigerian Conference of Women Religious

Nkiruka Okafor and Lauren McGrow

4 Human Dignity in Sex Work and the Catholic Tradition

Mark A. Levand

5 ‘A Catholic and an Agnostic Walk into a Homeless Camp…’ Collaborating Across Religious Differences

Yvonne C. Zimmerman

6 Towards an Ethical Framework for Practice: Three "Touchstones" for Faith-based Organizations at the Margins

Lauren McGrow

7 Jesus Ate with Pras: Christianity and Commercial Sex Work in the Caribbean

Anna Kasafi Perkins and Dane C. Lewis

8 When Survival Precedes Faith: Decolonial Perspectives on the Ethical Dilemma Confronting Female Christian Sex Workers in Africa

Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu, Margaret Ssebunya and Sophia Chirongoma

9 Afterword: To Shape the Changes for Which We Long

Yvonne C. Zimmerman

Biography

Lauren McGrow resides on the southern edge of Australia and her research focus includes sex work, gender, the body, and play. She is Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, Australia and is the author of Missionary Positions: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective on Sex Work and Faith-Based Outreach from Australia (2017).