Addressing the Sex Abuse Crisis in Communities of Faith and Learning
This paper argues that educational communities of faith and learning (e.g. Catholic colleges and universities) are especially primed to face into the pain and reality of the sex abuse crisis in honest and constructive ways. Citing the need for strategic collaboration between mental health profession...
| Published in: | Religious education |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2020]
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| In: |
Religious education
Year: 2020, Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 335-342 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Educational institution
/ Sexual abuse
/ Coping
/ Psychological counseling
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Null curriculum
B Trauma-informed B brave spaces B sex abuse |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This paper argues that educational communities of faith and learning (e.g. Catholic colleges and universities) are especially primed to face into the pain and reality of the sex abuse crisis in honest and constructive ways. Citing the need for strategic collaboration between mental health professionals and religious educators, it calls for pedagogies which: are trauma-informed and utilize the insights of neuroscience; promote open dialogue in the face of organizational silence; foster safe and courageous spaces; attend to the dangerous memory and deep impacts which accompany survivors of the sex abuse. It argues that failure to address the sex abuse crisis with open and interdisciplinary discourse fosters a null curriculum that will only serve to have corrosive implications. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2020.1738133 |