Religious Faith in the Unjust Meantime: The Spiritual Violence of Clergy Sexual Abuse

Clergy sexual abuse is both sexual and psychological violence, but it is also a paradigmatic case of spiritual violence that rises to the level of religious trauma. In this paper I argue that the spiritual violence of clergy sexual abuse diminishes, and in some cases may even destroy, a survivor’s...

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Main Author: Theresa W. Tobin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2019-07-01
Series:Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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Online Access:https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/7290