Abusing Religion

Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions

Megan Goodwin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0779-2 (ISBN)

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Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.

Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.

MEGAN GOODWIN is the program director for Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, a Henry R. Luce-funded project hosted by Northeastern University, and a visiting lecturer with Northeastern University’s Philosophy and Religion Department.

Introduction: Contraceptive Nationalism

1          America’s Contraceptive Mentality: Catholic Co-belligerence and the New Christian Right

            Part I Sex, Abuse, and the Satanic Panic

2          Satan Sellers: Michelle Remembers and the Making of a Sex Abuse Panic

3          Believe the Children? Catholicizing Public Morality

            Part II Sex, Abuse, and American Islamophobia

4          Dark Religion for Dark People: Race, American Islam, and Not Without My Daughter

5          The War at Home: Muslim Masculinity as Domestic Violence

            Part III Sex, Abuse, and Mormon Fundamentalism

6          From Short Creek to Zion: Mormons, Polygyny, and Under the Banner of Heaven

7          This Is Not About Religion: Raiding Zion to Save It

Conclusion: Sex, Abuse, and American Religion

Epilogue: Religion Trains Us Like Roses

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	None
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-9788-0779-1 / 1978807791
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0779-2 / 9781978807792
Zustand	Neuware