Recognising Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse: Responses from Sodalicio Survivors in Peru
This article presents the findings from qualitative interviews to explore responses to the idea of Jesus as victim of sexual abuse. The seven participants are adult male survivors of prior church sexual abuse, which they experienced as teenagers and young men. The perpetrators were leaders of the So...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Jesus, Religion, Gender |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion & gender
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-75 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Crucifixion
/ Sexual abuse
/ Torture
/ Victim (Social psychology)
/ Coping
/ Abuse
/ Catholic church
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBR Latin America NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Jesus
B Sodalcio B Sexual Abuse B Crucifixion B Torture B Sodalitium Christianae Vitae |
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| Summary: | This article presents the findings from qualitative interviews to explore responses to the idea of Jesus as victim of sexual abuse. The seven participants are adult male survivors of prior church sexual abuse, which they experienced as teenagers and young men. The perpetrators were leaders of the Sodalicio society in Peru. The article by Tombs (1999) on naming the torture of Jesus as sexual abuse was discussed, to assess whether participants see this as persuasive, and as meaningful for sexual abuse survivors, and important for the church. The interviews suggest that: (1) naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse was new to all participants; (2) most found the historical and biblical evidence to be persuasive; (3) the group were divided on whether this was of value to survivors of church related sexual abuse; (4) all of the group agreed that it was important for the wider church. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01001003 |