02966nam 2200493 450 991079411440332120230822235140.01-9788-0782-110.36019/9781978807822(CKB)4100000011298900(MiAaPQ)EBC6222687(DE-B1597)566283(DE-B1597)9781978807822(OCoLC)1157316698(EXLCZ)99410000001129890020201011d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAbusing religion literary persecution, sex scandals, and American minority religions /Megan GoodwinNew Brunswick :Rutgers University Press,2020.1 online resource (233 pages)1-9788-0779-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Contraceptive Nationalism -- 1. AMERICA’S CONTRACEPTIVE MENTALITY -- 2. SATAN SELLERS -- 3. BELIEVE THE CHILDREN? -- 4. DARK RELIGION FOR DARK PEOPLE -- 5. THE WAR AT HOME -- 6. FROM SHORT CREEK TO ZION -- 7. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION -- CONCLUSION. Religion, Sex, Abuse -- EPILOGUE. Religion Trains Us Like Roses -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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. Sex crimesReligious aspectsPublic opinionAmericansPublic opinionUnited StatesReligionreligion, sex scandal, american minority religion, american religion, Mormon, Latter Day Saints, Islam, Islamic, Muslim, sex abuse, religious leaders, Catholic, Catholic church, Catholicism, Christian, Christianity, Islamophobia, American Islam, Zion.Sex crimesReligious aspectsPublic opinion.AmericansPublic opinion.201/.764BE 1560SEPArvkGoodwin Megan1490962MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794114403321Abusing religion3712467UNINA