Religious Responses to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking

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).

• Introduction: An Outrage Against Any Decent PeopleLauren McGrow1 Abolition Mommas: Evangelical Women as Exceptional Citizens in the Fight to End "Global Sex Trafficking"Carly Daniel-Hughes2 Do You See This (Wo)man? Lessons Learned from Sex WorkersHannah Estabrook3 Walking with Women in Sex Work: An Appraisal of the Role of the Nigerian Conference of Women ReligiousNkiruka Okafor and Lauren McGrow4 Human Dignity in Sex Work and the Catholic TraditionMark A. Levand5 ‘A Catholic and an Agnostic Walk into a Homeless Camp…’ Collaborating Across Religious DifferencesYvonne C. Zimmerman6 Towards an Ethical Framework for Practice: Three "Touchstones" for Faith-based Organizations at the MarginsLauren McGrow7 Jesus Ate With Pras: Christianity and Commercial Sex Work in the CaribbeanAnna Kasafi Perkins and Dane C. Lewis8 When Survival Precedes Faith: Decolonial Perspectives on the Ethical Dilemma Confronting Female Christian Sex Workers in AfricaBeatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu, Margaret Ssebunya and Sophia Chirongoma 9 Afterword - To Shape the Changes for Which We LongYvonne C. Zimmerman