{"title":"A Lord's Supper Liturgy for Survivors of Trauma: On Sacramental Healing","authors":"Julie Prey-Harbaugh","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N04_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N04_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the specific aspects of the experience of trauma which relate to the ritual of communion and explores how those connections may hinder or further the healing journey of a survivor of trauma. Special attention is given to the needs of survivors of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. An example of a liturgy of the Lord's Supper from a Mennonite perspective that reflects awareness of the special needs of trauma survivors in Christian congregations is included.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126554068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence and the Ethos of Individualism","authors":"V. Wiehe","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N04_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N04_03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Numerous paradigms are suggested in the social science literature for understanding the various types of family violence. Several paradigms from this literature are reviewed. A paradigm for understanding family violence coming from a theological perspective is suggested by Marcus Borg in his book The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith. This paradigm is based on the ethos of individualism as compared to the ethos of compassion. The author points out that Borg's paradigm is supported by research from the social sciences on the variables of empathy and narcissism.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125761288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sexual Abuse Crisis– Issues We Still Have to Face: Response to Fr. Donald B. Cozzens","authors":"C. M. Newberger","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N03_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N03_10","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY This essay is a direct response to Fr. Donald Cozzens' keynote at the Symposium “Trusting the Clergy: The churches and communities come to grips with sexual misconduct.” It focuses on the issues we still have to face concerning sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which are: How do we know what the truth is when there are sexual abuse allegations; and how do we protect children from such abuse?","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122908986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responses to clergy sexual abuse by local lay leaders representing diverse communities. Authors' reply","authors":"Ladan Alomar, Anne M. Pope, Robert L. Miller","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N03_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N03_11","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY This essay considers the problem of sexual abuse by clergy from a Latina perspective.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133242608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Knickmeyer, H. Levitt, S. Horne, Gary Bayer
{"title":"Responding to Mixed Messages and Double Binds: Religious Oriented Coping Strategies of Christian Battered Women","authors":"Nicole Knickmeyer, H. Levitt, S. Horne, Gary Bayer","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N02_03","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explored the impact of religion on Christian women's experiences of male perpetrated domestic violence. A review of the extant research relative to this issue revealed that little is known about the relationship between religion and experiences of domestic violence. Participants in the Memphis, Tennessee area were asked to describe the relationship between their religion or faith and their experiences of domestic violence. Interviews were audio-taped and transcribed. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed within a grounded theory methodological framework (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Findings highlight the diverse and at times conflicting religious oriented coping strategies employed by Christian battered women to survive violence perpetrated by their spouse or intimate partner.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130882736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Religious Orientation and Coping on the Psychological Distress of Christian Domestic Violence Victims","authors":"George S. Ake, Sharon G. Horen","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N02_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N02_02","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on the relationships between religious coping methods, religious orientation, patriarchal religious beliefs, and psychological distress among 157 Christian women domestic violence victims who received counseling or shelter services in the southeast. Causal effects were estimated with ordinary least squares procedures using GEMINI, a FORTRAN program. Findings showed a significant negative effect of intrinsic religious orientation on psychological distress; significant positive effects of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation on positive religious coping methods; a significant positive effect of extrinsic religious orientation on negative religious coping methods; a significant positive effect of negative religious coping methods on psychological distress; and a significant positive indirect effect of extrinsic religious orientation on distress through negative religious coping. Implications for mental health professionals working with domestic violence victims are discussed.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127139127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shelter from the Raging Wind: Religious Needs of Victims of Intimate Partner Violence and Faith Leaders' Responses","authors":"S. Horne, H. Levitt","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N02_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N02_05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper integrates the findings from three studies on religious methods to cope with or prevent intimate partner violence (IPV). These analyses examined religious coping methods from multiple perspectives. One study surveyed Christian women's experiencing of coping with IPV, another presented findings from interviews with Christian women IPV victims, and a third investigated faith leaders' beliefs about the occurrence of IPV and the methods they utilize to support victims in their congregations. Findings describe mechanisms that may underlie how intrinsic religion and negative religious coping influence distress. Results highlight responses of leaders that may cause unintentional harm to IPV victims. Suggestions for religious leaders are provided on how to best approach this issue.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126052401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"May God Help You: Faith Leaders' Perspectives of Intimate Partner Violence Within Their Communities","authors":"K. Ware, H. Levitt, Gary Bayer","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N02_04","url":null,"abstract":"Semi-structured interviews were conducted with religious leaders from Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths on the relationship between religion and intimate partner violence (IPV). They were analyzed using grounded theory, producing a model of this interaction. This paper describes the leaders' perceived relevance of IPV for their congregation and the interventions that leaders used to address this issue. Most of the leaders estimated very low occurrence of IPV within their congregations and, accordingly, rarely discussed this topic in sermons. They identified preventative aspects of their faiths that might reduce marital conflict and violence, however, and described the methods they use to help congregants who do experience intimate partner violence. This article examines these prevention and intervention methods in light of current IPV research and makes available a broad variety of strategies for leaders to consider.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126786712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ameda A. Manetta, D. Bryant, Teresa Cavanaugh, Tracy-Ann Gange
{"title":"The Church–Does it Provide Support for Abused Women? Differences in the Perceptions of Battered Women and Parishioners","authors":"Ameda A. Manetta, D. Bryant, Teresa Cavanaugh, Tracy-Ann Gange","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N01_02","url":null,"abstract":"The role of religion in the prevention, fostering, and awareness of domestic violence is an understudied area in society. The Christian church has an enormous impact on the lives of over 111 million people in the United States, and could be a vehicle for helping stem the problem of abuse against women in society. This paper uses a South Carolina sample to describe the perceptions of 199 parishioners and 57 battered women attitudes toward whether church teaching contributes to domestic violence, whether women should be submissive toward their husbands, and formal services offered by churches. Different perceptions emerged. More battered women believed church teaching contributed to domestic violence. Neither group believed that women should be submissive toward their spouse. Also included is a description of the similarities and differences in formal services the two groups believed was available to battered women.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129614866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Association Between Spiritual Well-Being and Clergy Sexual Misconduct","authors":"Perry C. Francis, J. Stacks","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N01_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N01_06","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study sought to determine if there was a difference in the level of spiritual well-being in Lutheran clergy who self-reported committing sexual misconduct and those who self-reported not having committed sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct was defined as any activity in which a clergyperson, single or married, engaged in sexual behavior (sexual intercourse, kissing, touching or hugging with sexual intent, use of sexually explicit language) with a parishioner, client, or employee of the church (Francis & Turner, 1995). The results indicated that the proportion of clergy who self-reported having committed sexual misconduct had significantly lower levels of spiritual well-being as measured by the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Ellison & Smith, 1991) than clergy who self-reported not having committed sexual misconduct. Other demographic information are also measured and compared.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131897513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}