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Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems

Scapegoating, Family Secrets, and the Abuse of Power

  • Paperback
  • 222 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor& Francis Inc
  • 15.3 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm

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For clergy and leaders in religious communities.

Understanding Clergy Misconduct reveals hidden issues.

You can restore trust and healing in your community.

Discover the insightful exploration of clergy misconduct in religious systems and learn effective strategies for healing and change.

In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, you?ll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how you can quell the damaging tradition of silence.Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems helps you see leaders of religious institutions in a way that the world has been afraid to see them--in a glass clearly. Enriched with metaphoric myths and fairy tales instead of technical jargon, its unique systemic perspective reveals the psychodynamics behind the obsession with family secrets and lets you understand this dysfunction from the perspectives of victim, abuser, and counselor. These specific areas will both inform and aid you in dealing with this difficult subject: the religious institution as a family system the religious system as an illusion of the perfect family the concept of God-transference and the overidealization of clergy clergy personal relationships and clergy congregational relationships vulnerability and the psychology of the victim strategies for healing dysfunctional religious systems Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems comes at just the right time--in an era when little has been written on the subject, especially from a systemic perspective, this work comes at a time when the phenomena of clergy sexual misconduct has rocked the very foundation of religious systems worldwide. Whether you?re a lay congregational leader, judicatory administrator, pastoral counselor, psychologist, or seminarian, you?ll find that the coping strategies and intervention techniques it outlines will guide you in pinpointing the sickness at its source and restoring felicity and order to your religious leaders and their communities.

  • Title

    Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems

  • Author

    Candace R. Benyei

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Taylor& Francis Inc

  • Published

    March 1998

  • Weight

    309g

  • Page Count

    222

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780789004529

  • ISBN-10

    0789004526

  • Eden Code

    1158091

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