Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church
Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 September 2011
- ISBN 9780199895670
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 236x155x38 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform.
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A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders. Linking the personal and the institutional, researcher and therapist Marie Keenan locates the problem of child sexual abuse not exclusively in individual pathology, but also within larger systemic factors, such as the very institution of priesthood itself, the Catholic take on sexuality, clerical culture, power relations, governance structures of the Catholic Church, the process of formation for priesthood and religious life, and the complex manner in which these factors coalesce to create serious institutional risks for boundary violations, including child sexual abuse. Keenan draws on the priests' own words not to excuse their horrific crimes, but to offer the first in-depth account of a tragic, multi-faceted phenomenon.
What emerges is a troubling portrait of a Church in crisis and a series of recommendations that call for nothing less than a new ecclesiology and a new, more critical theology. Only through radical institutional reform, Keenan argues, can a more representative and accountable Church emerge.
Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform.
A must-read for thinking Catholics who are sincere in their attempts to find a way through the current crisis in the Church
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church, Clerical Men: A Critical Review
1. Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: The Scale and History of the Problem
2. Organized Irresponsibility (I): The Organizational and Institutional Culture of the Catholic Church
3. The View from the Ground: Clerical Men
Part II. Theorising Sexual Abuse
4. The Individual as the Unit of Analysis
5. A Social Approach for Understanding a Social Problem
6. Power and Gender
Part III. The Irish Case: Its Context and Wider Implications
7. Sexuality and Masculinity
8. Organized Irresponsibility (II): Clerical Elites, Rules, Obedience, and Loneliness
9. The Handling of Abuse Complaints
10. Understanding and Explaining Child Sexual Abuse within the Catholic Church
Conclusion: Prospects, Visions, Agendas
Appendix
Glossary
References
Index