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Title
The Diocese's darkest chapter : cultural trauma and the making of the Catholic abuse crisis in America / Allison Niebauer.
ISBN
9783031459986 (electronic bk.)
3031459989 (electronic bk.)
9783031459979
3031459970
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 237 pages) : color illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-45998-6 doi
Call Number
BV4392.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
253/.20973
Summary
From its quiet inception in 1988, to a hailstorm of statewide and national controversy over thirty years later, this book follows the development of public discourse regarding a clergy sexual abuse scandal in a small Catholic Diocese in Central Pennsylvania. Weaving together the evolving local and national narratives, it offers a striking account of how stakeholder rhetoric has influenced public perception of the Catholic abuse crisis in America, and driven public actions. While the book enriches our local knowledge of the tragic--and ongoing--cultural trauma triggered by the revelation of clergy perpetrated abuse in a small Catholic Diocese, it also makes a critical theoretical contribution to our understanding of the role of rhetoric in publicizing private pain, and galvanizing collectives to take it on as their own. The process of cultural trauma, Niebauer contends, unfolds through rhetorical forms that provide individuals with a constraining and enabling set of rhetorical choices. Highlighting the recurrent rhetorical forms of narration, kategoria, apologia, and topoi, The Diocese's Darkest Chapter brings a new vocabulary and explanatory force to the study of cultural trauma, and the Catholic abuse crisis in America.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 14, 2023).
Series
Cultural sociology, 2946-3580
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031459979
Chapter 1. Introduction: Constructing a Cultural Trauma in the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese
Chapter 2. The New Way the Holy Spirit Moves: Rhetorical Narration and the Enduring Legacy of the Luddy Case
Chapter 3. It's Not A "Catholic" Problem: Definition and the Causes of CPSA
Chapter 4. What is "the Church?" : Defining Communal Commonplaces in the Pennsyl-vania Statute of Limitations Debate
Chapter 5. In the Name of Healing: The Politicization of Injury through Democratic Topoi
Chapter 6. Why We Stay Catholic: Assimilative Strategies and Lay Responses to CPSA
Chapter 7. Conclusion Rhetorical action in the Cultural Trauma of the Catholic Abuse Crisis.
