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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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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

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

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

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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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