Abusing Religion : : Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions / / Megan Goodwin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Goodwin, Megan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; None
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION. Contraceptive Nationalism --; 1. AMERICA’S CONTRACEPTIVE MENTALITY --; Part 1. SEX, ABUSE, AND THE SATANIC PANIC --; 2. SATAN SELLERS --; 3. BELIEVE THE CHILDREN? --; Part 2. SEX, ABUSE, AND AMERICAN ISLAMOPHOBIA --; 4. DARK RELIGION FOR DARK PEOPLE --; 5. THE WAR AT HOME --; Part 3. SEX, ABUSE, AND MORMON FUNDAMENTALISM --; 6. FROM SHORT CREEK TO ZION --; 7. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION --; CONCLUSION. Religion, Sex, Abuse --; EPILOGUE. Religion Trains Us Like Roses --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978807822; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704778; 9783110704570; 9783110690330
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978807822?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Megan Goodwin.

Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.