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Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

Title: Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.
Author: Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail, 1950-
Publication: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

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Description

1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)

Summary

A sweeping account of the dynamics of sexual abuse by priests and its cover-up.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-304) and index.

Reproduction (note)

Electronic reproduction.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Personal preface -- 1. From the Bayou to Boston : a developing pattern -- 2. Surviving soul murder -- [pt. 1]. Teachings and traditions implicated in the scandal -- 3. Suffering, submission, and sadomasochism -- 4. Embodied and gendered souls -- 5. Degraded sexual desire and theologized sex -- 6. Celibate sexuality and sexually active "celibates" -- 7. Homosexuality : secreted and scapegoated -- [pt. 2]. The Catholic hierarchy -- 8. Where were the pastors? -- 9. Clerical narcissism -- [pt. 3]. Priests, laypeople, and culture -- 10. Perpetrators, priests, people in the pews -- 11. The secret is revealed -- Epilogue : Is everything old new again? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

9780826592224
0826592228
1283053829
9781283053822
9780826515469 (canceled/invalid)
0826515460 (canceled/invalid)
9780826515476 (canceled/invalid)
0826515479 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

ocn709606328
709606328
SCSB-1418398

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Princeton University Library