Overview

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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Author:   Megan Goodwin
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978807792

ISBN 10:   1978807791
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   17 July 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Contraceptive Nationalism 1          America’s Contraceptive Mentality: Catholic Co-belligerence and the New Christian Right                                  Part I Sex, Abuse, and the Satanic Panic 2          Satan Sellers: Michelle Remembers and the Making of a Sex Abuse Panic              3          Believe the Children? Catholicizing Public Morality             Part II Sex, Abuse, and American Islamophobia 4          Dark Religion for Dark People: Race, American Islam, and Not Without My Daughter        5          The War at Home: Muslim Masculinity as Domestic Violence             Part III Sex, Abuse, and Mormon Fundamentalism 6          From Short Creek to Zion: Mormons, Polygyny, and Under the Banner of Heaven            7          This Is Not About Religion: Raiding Zion to Save It                      Conclusion: Sex, Abuse, and American Religion                              Epilogue: Religion Trains Us Like Roses      Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index  

Reviews

A major and multidisciplinary contribution. --Sean McCloud author of American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States Significant and eminently timely. --Melissa M. Wilcox author of Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody Evocative, theoretically compelling, and not mincing words, Abusing Religion offers profound new insights into pulp fiction on sexual abuse in/by minority religious communities. Goodwin's 'reproductive nationalism, ' bringing together race, religion, sexuality, and gender, will surely change conversations in more than one field. --Juliane Hammer author of Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence Abuse Happens Because We Let It, by Megan Goodwin https: //sojo.net/articles/abuse-happens-because-let-it-Menlo-Park-John-Ortberg-Lavery--Juliane Hammer Sojo

A major and multidisciplinary contribution.--Sean McCloud author of American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States Significant and eminently timely.--Melissa M. Wilcox author of Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

Author Information

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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