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Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions - Softcover

Goodwin, Megan

 
9781978807785: Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1978807783 ISBN 13: 9781978807785
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.
 

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1978807783
ISBN 13 
9781978807785
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232