Title Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.

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Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-304) and index.
Contents	Acknowledgments -- Personal preface -- 1. From the Bayou to Boston : a developing pattern -- 2. Surviving soul murder -- [part 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 -- [part 2]. The Catholic hierarchy -- 8. Where were the pastors? -- 9. Clerical narcissism -- [part 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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	A sweeping account of the dynamics of sexual abuse by priests and its cover-up.
Subject	Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior.
	Catholic Church.
	Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
	Child sexual abuse by clergy.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
	Child sexual abuse by clergy. (OCoLC)fst00854670
	Clergy -- Sexual behavior. (OCoLC)fst00864086
	Katholischer Geistlicher -- Sexueller Missbrauch.
	Sexueller Missbrauch -- Katholischer Geistlicher.
	Sexueller Missbrauch -- Kirche.
	Kirche -- Sexueller Missbrauch.
	Sexuell missbrauchtes Kind -- Klerus.
Other Form:	Print version: Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail, 1950- Perversion of power. 1st ed. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007 9780826515469 (DLC) 2006029442 (OCoLC)71350368
ISBN	9780826592224 (electronic bk.)
	0826592228 (electronic bk.)

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