{"title":"A Grassroots Religious Response to Domestic Violence in Haiti","authors":"S. Wiley","doi":"10.1300/J154v05n01_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154v05n01_03","url":null,"abstract":"The Caribbean island nation of Haiti has a history of victory over slavery, and a history of violence, including violence against women and children. Haiti's traditional religion, Vodou, is a resource for change. The theology at the heart of Haitian Vodou stands in direct contrast to domestic violence. Centered on a theology of hospitality and equality, Vodou offers great potential as a voice of resistance against violence. Grassroots responses in various forms have begun to emerge from within Vodou, but to date there is no cohesive organization to pull these voices together. Work in organizing the religious responses denouncing domestic violence would provide the opportunity for a systemic change.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"27 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":"132242812","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":"Doing Justice in Cases of Clergy Abuse of Power: A Legal Perspective","authors":"A. Underwood","doi":"10.1300/J154V05N01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V05N01_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This two-part article summarizes sexual harassment law as developed from employment and educational cases since 1986. By analogy it suggests how best practices in the secular world may provide useful insights to faith communities addressing the abuse of power sexually by their clergy and lay leaders. The article proposes a model for investigating and adjudicating allegations of ethical violations. “Fair process,” rather than constitutional “due process,” is explained and advocated for faith communities. Accountability is framed in terms of restorative rather than retributive justice.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"34 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":"131000788","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":"Forgiving abuse - An ethical critique","authors":"P. Horsfield","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_05","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that most Christian understandings and practices of forgiveness have lost the ethical framework that gives forgiveness meaning and makes forgiveness effective as a means of resolving the effects of abuse on individuals, communities and the abuser. From the context of a number of practical cases, it explores common Christian misconceptions about forgiveness, deconstructs common Christian practices, and offers a number of conditions that need to be present if forgiveness is to be recovered as an ethical action. The traditional Samoan practice of Ifonga is explored as an example of a communal and ethical means of redressing wrong within which forgiveness is embodied.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128932723","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":"Sexual Abuse, Forgiveness and Justice: A Journey in Faith","authors":"J. Evinger, D. L. Yoder","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_06","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY The Christian precept of forgiveness is examined in the context of sexual abuse committed against adults and children in Protestant congregations. Two vignettes and accompanying commentary present issues and problems related to an application for reinstatement to office by a minister whose ordination was suspended, and a proposal regarding restitution for victims. A third vignette is an account of an authentic act of forgiveness by a congregation's lay leaders that, as expression of their faith, honors a commitment to make justice for victims.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132543646","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":"Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Healing","authors":"C. T. Coyle","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_08","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY This article explores two questions: “Are forgiveness and reconciliation synonymous?” and “Are both forgiveness and reconciliation necessary for psychological healing?” The questions are discussed in the context of abuse. A process model of forgiveness is described and relevant research is summarized. The author concludes that forgiveness and reconciliation are not synonymous and, therefore, abuse victims may benefit from choosing to forgive even without reconciling with their abusers.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129686854","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":"When Forgiveness Is Not the Issue in Forgiveness: Religious Complicity in Abuse and Privatized Forgiveness","authors":"Margaret F. Arms","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_09","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY This article examines public and private (individual) aspects of forgiveness relating to abuse and the complicity of religious institutions in abuse by some theological formulations and doctrines. It argues that the real issue is not whether to forgive but how much the process involves individual and religious institutional truth telling. Drawing from the work of Desmond Tutu and Carter Heyward, the author suggests that public and private dimensions of truth telling are critical components of forgiveness. Without the public participation of religious institutions in truth telling about their own complicity, privatized forgiveness is diminished but may stand as an act of resistance.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132290072","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":"Three Spirits: One Parish: A Short Story in Four Parts","authors":"M. Born","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115904489","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":"Forgiving the Unforgivable? Jewish Insights into Repentance and Forgiveness","authors":"Rabbi Mark Dratch","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_02","url":null,"abstract":"Forgiveness, a beautiful, virtuous and honorable theological concept has, at times, been a stumbling block to healing and justice for victims, and has colluded, albeit unintentionally, in perpetuating the scars of violence and creating a few of its own. This article surveys traditional Jewish views of forgiveness and repentance. It defines these concepts and elucidates the need for reconciliation, reparations, healing and justice as prerequisites for forgiveness.","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116965495","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":"Forgiveness and Mental Health: An Exploration of Jewish and Christian Approaches","authors":"Todd A. Heim, Mark S. Rye","doi":"10.1300/J154V04N04_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J154V04N04_04","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY This study examined the relationship between forgiveness of others and mental health. It also explored Jewish and Christian approaches to the conceptualization and practice of forgiveness. Participants were recruited from several Midwestern US churches and synagogues. Participants answered self-report questionnaires concerning religiousness (religious affiliation, level of religious activity, Intrinsic Religiousness), situational forgiveness (Absence of Negative-AN; Presence of Positive-PP), dispositional forgiveness (Forgiveness Likelihood), conceptualization of forgiveness (Forgiveness Concept) and mental health (State Anger, Trait Anger, Hope, Depression, Existential Well-Being, Religious Well-Being). Consistent with hypotheses, after controlling for demographic/background variables, Forgiveness (AN) was positively correlated with Existential and Religious Well-Being, and negatively correlated with State Anger and Depression. Forgiveness (PP) was also positively correlated with Existential Well...","PeriodicalId":165629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion & Abuse","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127814133","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}