Pedophiles and priests
anatomy of a contemporary crisis
by Philip Jenkins
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If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized cases, with front-page photos of priests led off to jail, and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy. But did the news media get the story right? Is there really an epidemic of clergy sex abuse?
And is there, as some charge, something about the institution of the priesthood itself that attracts or creates pedophiles?
Neither an expose nor an apology, Pedophiles and Priests takes a close, dispassionate look at the entire history of this mushrooming scandal, from the first rumblings to today's headlines. Philip Jenkins has written a fascinating, exhaustive, and above all even-handed account that not only puts this particular crisis in perspective, but offers an eye-opening look at the way in which an issue takes hold of the popular imagination.
Jenkins argues convincingly not only that clergy sex abuse is far less widespread than the headlines suggest, but that there is nothing at all particularly Roman Catholic about the problem.
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Child sexual abuse by clergy, United States, Clergy, Sexual behavior, Catholic Church, Kind, Pedofilie, Priesters, Rooms-Katholieke Kerk, Klerus, Sexueller Missbrauch, Child sexual abuse, Clergy, sexual behavior, Catholic church, clergy, Catholic church, united states, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
November 2001, Replica Books
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Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
May 17, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Pedophiles and priests: anatomy of a contemporary crisis
1996, Oxford University Press
in English
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