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Pedophiles and Priests
Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
by Philip Jenkins
ISBN: 0195095650
ISBN-13: 9780195095654
Format: Hardcover
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"'Pedophiles and Priests' is a fine cautionary tale that should give all parties to the pedophile-priest crisis something to thing about." -- Mark Silk
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published date: 1996
Size: 6 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Pages: 214
Publisher's Notes
If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized cases, with front-page photos of priests led off to jail, and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy. But did the news media get the story right? Is there really an epidemic of clergy sex abuse? And is there, as some charge, something about the institution of the priesthood itself that attracts or creates pedophiles? Neither an expose nor an apology, Pedophiles and Priests takes a close, dispassionate look at the entire history of this mushrooming scandal, from the first rumblings to today's headlines. Philip Jenkins has written a fascinating, exhaustive, and above all even-handed account that not only puts this particular crisis in perspective, but offers an eye-opening look at the way in which an issue takes hold of the popular imagination. Jenkins argues convincingly not only that clergy sex abuse is far less widespread than the headlines suggest, but that there is nothing at all particularly Roman Catholic about the problem.
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Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
JENKINS, Philip
Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean and bright text) in dust jacket. 214pp. ISBN 0195095650. . ( more information) Offered by The Book Firm (Australia)
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PEDOPHILES AND PRIESTS - ANATOMY OF A CONTEMPORARY CRISIS
Jenkins Philip
Oxford Univeristy Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; A little shelf wear-price clipped. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 16x24cm; 214 pages . ( more information) Offered by Hollingsworth's Books (United States)
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Pedophiles and Priests anatomy of a contemporary crisis
Jenkins, Philip
Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardcover Cloth/dust jacket. Octavo Good with good dust jacket some ink markings in margins of some pages red paper covered boards black cloth spine with silver lettering illustrated dust jacket 214 pp ( more information) Offered by San Francisco Book Company (France)
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