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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail, 1950- Perversion of power. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)609005363 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea |
| ISBN: | 9780826515469 0826515460 9780826515476 0826515479 |
| OCLC Number: | 71350368 |
| Description: | xv, 320 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea. |
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Abstract:
Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, the author presents the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's; probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long; and what drew this scandal into the public arena.
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