The Diocese's darkest chapter : cultural trauma and the making of the Catholic abuse crisis in America

The Diocese's darkest chapter : cultural trauma and the making of the Catholic abuse crisis in America / Allison Niebauer.

From its quiet inception in 1988, to a hailstorm of statewide and national controversy over thirty years later, this book follows the development of public discourse regarding a clergy sexual abuse scandal in a small Catholic Diocese in Central Pennsylvania. Weaving together the evolving local and n...

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Main Author: Niebauer, Allison (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:Cultural sociology,
Subjects:
Catholic Church > United States > Clergy.
Catholic Church.
Sexual misconduct by clergy > United States.
Clergy.
Sexual misconduct by clergy.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Constructing a Cultural Trauma in the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese
  • Chapter 2. The New Way the Holy Spirit Moves: Rhetorical Narration and the Enduring Legacy of the Luddy Case
  • Chapter 3. It's Not A "Catholic" Problem: Definition and the Causes of CPSA
  • Chapter 4. What is "the Church?" : Defining Communal Commonplaces in the Pennsyl-vania Statute of Limitations Debate
  • Chapter 5. In the Name of Healing: The Politicization of Injury through Democratic Topoi
  • Chapter 6. Why We Stay Catholic: Assimilative Strategies and Lay Responses to CPSA
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion Rhetorical action in the Cultural Trauma of the Catholic Abuse Crisis.

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