| Description |
397 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
What Is Religious Child Maltreatment? -- Religion as Harmful -- Child Maltreatment -- Religious Child Maltreatment -- How Prevalent? -- A Psychological and Spiritual Cost -- My Story -- Critics Speak Out -- First Steps -- A Country in Denial -- A Religious America -- Not in My Place of Worship -- Too Faithful to Faith -- When Religion Becomes Harmful -- Authoritarianism and Religion -- Religious Authoritarian Cultures -- Religious Authoritarianism and Children -- Right-Wing Authoritarians -- Remembering Jonestown -- Parents as "Middle Managers" -- Big Demands -- Unquestioned Obedience to Authority -- Patriarchy and Weakened Mothers -- Separatism -- Parents' Regrets -- Child Maltreatment and the Bible -- The Good News -- Where Are the Children? -- Children as Victims of Violence -- Sacrificing Sons and Daughters -- A Need for Scrutiny -- The Pain of Chastisement-Religious Child Physical Abuse -- Child Physical Abuse -- The Corporal Punishment Controversy -- "The Rod of Correction" -- Sometimes It Is about Corporal Punishment -- The Rod and Physical Abuse -- An Obsession with Child Obedience -- Jumping on the Bandwagon -- Spanking Too Much and Too Hard -- The Fear Factor -- A Deadly Dictum -- No Comfort for Abuse Victims -- Child Sinfulness "97" A Christian Problem -- Behold the Child Sinner -- Child Sinfulness and Abuse -- Purifying Children -- Saving Souls -- Breaking Wills -- The Perils of Mixing Faith and Corporal Punishment -- Poisonous Preaching -- A Spanking Advocate's Dangerous Advice -- No Greater Joy Ministries -- The Remnant Fellowship Church -- Harm Without Hitting-Religious Child Emotional Abuse -- Child Emotional or Psychological Maltreatment -- Harm to Victims -- Is Religion Good or Bad for a Child's Psyche? -- Negative Effects -- Religion and the Mental Health of Children -- Sinful, Disobedient, Evil, and Depraved-Religious Spurning -- Scaring Them into Faith-Religious Terrorizing -- Child Targets of Fear -- Terrorized Parents, Terrorized Children -- A Scary God -- The Next Life -- Devils and Demons -- Instiling Fear to Control and Dominate -- In the World, Not of the World-Religious Isolating and Exploiting -- Living Two Lives -- Spreading the Faith -- Not Being Good Enough -- Sabotaging Intellectual Autonomy -- Violating A Sacred Trust-Religious Child Sexual Abuse -- Child Sexual Abuse -- Harm to Victims -- Religion and Child Sexual Abuse Murdered Souls -- Lesser-Known Cases -- Religiously Sanctioned Child Sexual Abuse -- The Family of Love -- The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Religious Power and Child Sexual Abuse -- Using Religious Messages -- Victims Keep Silent -- The Enabling Parent -- Failing Victims -- Faith Communities Turn Their Backs -- Secrecy and Silence at the Top -- Failure to Report Abuse -- Conducting Internal "Investigations" -- Rebuffing Victims -- The Catholic Church -- Jehovah's Witnesses -- Orthodox Jewish Communities -- Sin of Denial-Religious Child Medical Neglect -- Religion and Child Neglect -- Why No One Calls It Neglect -- Religious Exemptions -- The Role of Politics -- The Hazards of Blind Faith -- "We Wanted to Believe" -- Social Pressures -- Illness Is Not a Biological Problem -- Waiting on Divine Intervention -- "God's Will" -- Resurrecting Children -- Untrustworthy Doctors -- A Christian Issue? -- Fatal Prayers -- The Christian Science Church -- Jehovah's Witnesses -- The Followers of Christ -- Sorting Out the Demons of Child Ritual Abuse -- The Satanic Panic -- Child Ritual Abuse in America -- Exorcism: A Popular Rite -- Harm to Victims -- Is Male or Female Circumcision Religious Child Maltreatment? -- Male Circumcision and Religion -- Female Circumcision and Religion -- Is Female Circumcision Abusive? -- Female Genital Cutting in America: A Secret History -- Is Male Circumcision Abusive? -- A Need to Know More -- Are We Hypocritical? -- Train Up the Church and Everybody Else -- Repeal Faith Healing-Related Religious Exemptions -- Require Clergy to Report Child Abuse and Neglect -- Extend or Eliminate Child Sexual Abuse Statutes of Limitations -- Secular Agencies Should Reach Out to Religious Communities -- What Parents Can Do -- Faith Communities Making a Difference -- Acknowledging Children's Rights -- Spreading the Faith -- Fearing a Loss of Religious Freedom -- Putting on a Good Face -- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Viewing Children in a Different Way. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religious life and customs.
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Child abuse -- Religious aspects.
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Child abuse -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781616144050 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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161614405X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781616144067 (e-book) |
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1616144068 (e-book) |
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