Wolves within the fold : religious leadership and abuses of power
The contributors to this volume explore the misuse of power by religious authorities at the expense of their followers. Topics range from a cultural study of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese apocalyptic group who released lethal gas onto the Tokyo subway, to evangelical financial scandal.
eBook, English, ©1998
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©1998
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
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Introduction: the dynamics of clergy malfeasance / Anson shipe
Church structures that facilitate pedophilia among Roman Catholic clergy / Theresa Krebs
The AUM spiritual Truth Church in Japan / Robert Kisala
Economic fraud and christian leaders in the United States / Anson Shipe
An advocacy group fof victims of clerical sexual abuse / Elizabeth Pullen
The impact of abuses of clergy trust on female congregants' aith and practice / Nancy Nason-Clark
Reactions of Hare Krishna devotees to scandals of leaders' misconduct / E. Bruke Rochford Jr
creating a culture of clergy deviance / Philp Jenkins
Clergy abuse in Ireland / A.W. Richard Sipe
The moral bankruptcy of institutionalized religion / Jeanne M. Miller
Disclaimers and accounts in cases of Catholic Priests accused of pedophilia / James G. Thomson, Joseph A. Marolla, and David G. Bromley
How the problem of malfeasance gets overlooked in studies of new religions: an examination of the AWARE study of the Church Universal and Triumphant / Robert W. Balch and Stephan Langdon
Criminology's contributions to the study of religious crime / Peter Iadicola / Future study of clergy malfeasance / Anson Shupe
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