Dehumanizing Christians : cultural competition in a multicultural world / George Yancey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yancey, George A., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority.

Authoritarianism.

Christianity--Social aspects.

Christianity.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

146 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

This comprehensive analysis offers the first up-to-date analysis of sexual, economic, and authoritative clergy malfeasance across faiths and denominations. Shupe critically evaluates deviant clerical behavior, dividing it into various types. He also makes use of the therapeutic literature, addressing victimization at the level of the individual, church, and community at large. In this way, he compares the response of the clergy to victims' attempts to mobilize for church reform. The book considers the controversial relationship of homosexuality in the clergy to the occurrences of scandals. Godly Seed examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders quietly embraced contraception and briefly accepted abortion. It places this change within the context of historic Christian teaching regarding birth control, including its origins in the early church and the shift in arguments made by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. The book explores the demographic effects of this transition and asks: did the delay by American evangelicals leaders in accepting birth control have consequences? Book jacket.

Contents:

Is right-wing authoritarianism incorrect?

Constructing the Christian dehumanization scale

Who are those that dehumanize Christians?

Authoritarianism, dehumanization, and critical thinking

Is Christian dehumanization merely a version of right-wing authoritarianism?

Where do we go from here?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412852678

1412852676

OCLC:

845084691