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Tables of Contents for Pedophiles and Priests
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Construction of Problems and Panics
3
16
Recognizing a Problem
The Process of Social Construction
Alternative Views
Constructing ``Pedophile Priests''
The Catholic Dimension
Unconstructed Cases
The Book
The Anti-Catholic Tradition
19
14
Anticlericals and Anti-Catholics
The American Inheritance
The Sexual Component
Puritan Pornography
Homosexuals and Pedophiles
The Sins of the Fathers
The German ``Pedophile Crisis''
The Decline of Anti-Catholicism?
The Discovery of Clergy Sex Abuse
33
20
An Age of Innocence?
The 1980s
The Impact of the Gauthe Case, 1984--1989
Facing Facts?
The New Wave of Cases, 1989--1992
Crisis in Chicago, 1991--1994
The Cases Proliferate
``Priest of Porn''
The Porter Case, 1992--1993
The Cycle
Restoring Trust
Not Just Catholics
The Media and the Crisis
53
24
Reporting the Problem
The Use of Language
The Cartoon Vision
Fall from Grace
A Historical Context
``Conspiracy of Silence''?
Changing Media Values
Constructing Crisis
Experts
Television
Recreating the Cases
Defending the Church?
Pedophilia and Child Abuse
77
18
Defining the Problem
How Many Priests?
Child Abuse: A Historical Context
The Age of Complacency
Formulating Child Abuse
Scale and Effects
Reframing the Sex Offender
Framing Clergy Sex Offenders
Treating Cleargy Abusers
Conflict in the Churches
95
18
The Origins of Conflict
Gender, Sexuality, And Authority
Homosexuality
Traditionalists
Clergy Abuse as a Liberal Issue
The Media and the Catholic Reformers
The Rhetoric of Reform
Reforms as Remedy: Celibacy and the Seminaries
Interpreting Clergy Abuse
Impact of the Scandals
``Sins of the Fathers'': The Feminist Response
113
12
Feminism and Sexual Abuse
Feminism in the Churches
The Theology, of Abuse
Feminists and Clergy Abuse
The Uses of Abuse
Conclusion
The Legal Environment
125
14
The Litigation Explosion
Litigating Child Abuse
Clergy Abuse in the Courts
Expanding the Liability Net
The Effects of Litigation
Defending the Suits
Consequences
Conclusion
Defending Therapy
139
14
Believing the Children
Ritual Child Abuse
The Recovered-Memory Debate
Recovered Memory and Clergy-Abuse Allegations
Clergy Abuse and Ritual Abuse
Defending Therapy
Survivor Movements
Backlash
Meanings and Directions
153
20
Constructing the Problem
The Church and the World
Sects and Scandals
Values, Authority, and Religious Change
Therapeutic Values
The Rhetoric of Religious Problems
``The Greatest Crisis''?
Understanding Cleargy Abuse: Activism and Audience
Notes
173
36
Index
209