Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 16 (2025) : From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church /

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 16 (2025) : From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church /

The volume "From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church" contributes to the sociology of religion by examining how individual cases of clerical sexual abuse escalate (or not) into scandals that challenge religious authority and reshape institutional life. It explores how th...

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Other Authors: Béraud, Céline (Editor), Giordan, Giuseppe (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion ; 16.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. An Introduction
  • Céline Béraud and Giuseppe Giordan
  • 1 Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church in France: Contribution to the Sociology of a Scandal
  • Philippe Portier
  • 2 From 'Clergy Sexual Abuse' to a More Comprehensive Concept of Abuse in the Catholic Church: Major Cultural and Social Shifts in the USA
  • Massimo Faggioli
  • 3 Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Catholicism: Centering the Role of the Vatican
  • Brian Conway
  • 4 Sexual Abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church
  • Stefan Gärtner
  • 5 The Sauvé Report: What's Next? Anatomy of the French Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
  • Céline Béraud
  • 6 Missing Incidents and Masking Scandals: How Swiss Cheese Organization and Neutralization Techniques Help Religious Orders Blunt the Effects of Clergy Sexual Abuse
  • Rebecca K. Murray, Heather Fryer and Julia Feder
  • 7 "It Is the Abuses That Made Me Click": Formal Disaffiliation as Mobilization against the Catholic Church
  • Julia Martínez-Ariño
  • 8 From Cases to Scandals? Media Representations of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy
  • Stefano Sbalchiero, Giuseppe Giordan and Piermarco Aroldi
  • 9 An Aborted Scandal? Denunciatory Discourse and Media Marginalization of Sexually Abused Nuns in France
  • Clémence Douteau
  • 10 A (Non)Disruptive Scandal? The Fragmented Societalization of the Problem of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy
  • Marco Guglielmi
  • 11 Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Croatia: Cases but Not (Yet?) Scandals
  • Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić, Siniša Zrinščak and Dinka Marinović Jerolimov
  • 12 Sacred Eroticism within the Catholic Church: the Philippe Family, Jean Vanier, and Their Secret Society
  • Massimo Introvigne
  • 13 The Catholic Church and the Scandal of Indigenous Unmarked Graves: a Catalyst of Social, Political and Historical Tensions towards Catholicism in Canada
  • E.-Martin Meunier and Sabrina Di Matteo
  • 14 Clerical Offenders as Family Friends: a Pilot Study of Case-to-Scandal Dynamics in Czechia Using Open-Source Data
  • Michal Opatrný
  • 15 Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland: the Role of Media and Cinema
  • Magdalena Ratajczak
  • Index.