Pastoral misconduct : the American black church examined / Anson Shupe and Janelle M. Eliasson-Nannini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shupe, Anson D.

Contributor:

Eliasson-Nannini, Janelle M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African American clergy.

Clergy--Conduct of life.

Clergy.

Pastoral theology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

This comprehensive analysis offers the first up-to-date analysis of sexual, economic, and authoritative clergy malfeasance across faiths and denominational authority structures. Drawing on examples taken from antiquity up to the present day, and using reports by historians, theologians, church spokespersons, therapists, social scientists, and journalists, Anson Shupe critically evaluates clergy deviant behavior. There is simply no other comprehensive, serious examination of this subject. Written by a sociologist for a wide range of readers, its multi-disciplinary nature, vivid examples, and wealth of research, will make this book of interest to sociologists of religion and crime, historians and theologians, as well as a general public. Book jacket.

Contents:

Minority religions in the American context: an introduction

Black history, Black religion, and the salient identity of pastor and congregation in the minority church

The abuses of Black pastoral power

Authority and aggrandizement within the American Black church

Black pastoral misdeeds, charisma, and identity salience

Understanding Black pastoral malfeasance and laity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412847780

1412847788

OCLC:

781939302