Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 0195145976
- ISBN-13
- 9780195145977
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-08-30
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Philip Jenkins
Description
Arguing that the current epidemic of clergy sex abuse is not as widespread as the media suggests, a critical examination of this issue states that popular imagination fans the fire of scandal and theorizes about why the controversy has targeted Catholicism. UP.
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