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The dark box : a secret history of confession / John Cornwell ; Pauline Brown, design.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornwell, John, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confession--History.
- Confession.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession.
- Contents:
- Contents; Author's Note; Prologue; PART ONE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONFESSION; 1. Early Penitents and Their Penances; 2. Confession into Its Own; 3. Confession and the Counter-Reformers; 4. Fact, Fiction, and Anticlericalism; PART TWO: THE CHILD PENITENTS; 5. The Pope Who 'Restored' Catholicism; 6. Pius X's Spy-Net; 7. The Great Confessional Experiment; 8. The Making of a Confessor; 9. Seminary Sexology; PART THREE: 'SOUL MURDER'; 10. Sexual Abuse in the Confessional; 11. Confession Imagined; 12. Varieties of Confessional Experience; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Select Bibliography; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-465-08049-9
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