Intimate partner violence against women is a global public health and criminal justice problem that has enormous consequences for the health and wellbeing of millions of women all over the world. It is a form of domestic violence where, in an intimate relationship, physical or psychological acts of violence are perpetrated by a partner or spouse against the other partner or spouse. The purpose of the article is to present the dynamic of violence in an intimate couple relationship with the focus on the victim’s (woman’s) lost dignity. Getting the lost dignity back is the key factor in establishing healthy boundaries, building safety and protection from the violence, and the role of the faith in this context can be crucial. We will present aspects of women’s faith in the Christian tradition that could serve as potential for growth, protection, and support in finishing and recovering from abusive relationships.

The article analyses how religious education might contribute to citizenship education, to reduction of undemocratic citizenship and to the objective to educate an active, tolerant citizen who is able to develop an intercultural dialogue. Analysing the possibilities and methods of contribution of religious education to citizenship education, the relationship between religiosity and citizenship, between religious and citizenship education are discussed. Service learning is presented as a method serving the development of the preferable multicultural and socially active citizenship, strengthening interreligious understanding and solving interreligious conflicts. The article presents action research applying the service-learning method which was applied in one Lithuanian university in 2006. The results of the research are discussed as well.

Authors of the article present data of pilot study and analysis on religious identity and how it correlates with other dimensions of social life in transformation. The scale of D. Hutsebaut is taken as a basis for the research. Pilot scale is formed on historical legacies of Lithuania to investigate how they correlate with religious identities.