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Title: Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0-19-514597-6 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Objective, balanced and fascinating
Comment: Philip Jenkins has written a first-rate book, not just about the "moral panic" over "pedophile priests", but about our tendency as a society to seek simplistic answers for complex social problems. Jenkins argues persuasively, on the basis of extensive evidence, that the portrayal of the Catholic Church as a haven for pedophiles is just the latest version of the anti-Catholic stereotype which dates back at least as far as the Reformation. The scapegoating of the Catholic Church is also facilitated, as Jenkins points out, by the bureaucratic tradition of the Curia: keeping centralized records of abuse allegations makes a Catholic diocese an easy target for litigation, in a way which a dispersed Protestant denomination can never be.
Highly recommended. Very clear, accessible, and thoroughly researched.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book on this Crisis
Comment: This is a non-Catholic scholar who makes the case that there is an objective anti-Catholic agenda at work behind the expolitation of the relatively few cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
Pedophilia is a sociatal problem and about 3% of the members of organisations (Scout, community and other key groups in society) are pedophiles. In the Catholic church the percentage is .02% of priests.
In the current crisis there are about 200 cases in the current scandle (some going back 30 years), however the Christian Monitor reported that EVERY YEAR in the Protestant churches there are about 2000 cases of sexual scandle! Why don't we hear about this in the media?
Read this book and find out. . .
The media is losing its creditability in America. Its prejudice against the Catholic Church is at best unprofessional and at worse evil.
This book offers the balanced, thoughtful and unbiased evidence of the prejudice. You will be shocked and given new eyes with which to see the truth behind the endless waves of media trash.
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid Social Science
Comment: Professor Jenkins contributes immeasurably to the current discussion of clergy sexual abuse by doing what every social scientist should. Jenkins steadfastly refuses to add to the volume of this shrill and partisan debate by offering conjectures or personal opinions. Instead, he calmly presents the data in a detached manner, and then draws his conclusions based solely on the data.
Anyone with an interest in the current crisis would benefit from reading Professor Jenkins' sane, calm, and lucid analysis.
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Title: The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0195154800 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis by A. W. Richard Sipe ISBN: 0876307691 Publisher: Brunner-Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Jason Berry, Andrew M. Greeley ISBN: 0252068122 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Betrayal : The Crisis in the Catholic Church by Boston Globe ISBN: 0316776750 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Our Fathers : The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal by DAVID FRANCE ISBN: 0767914309 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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