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Using critical discourse analysis to examine cultures of denial in the Roman Catholic Church / Michael Andre Guerzoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guerzoni, Michael Andre, author.
- Series:
- SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
- SAGE Research Methods. Cases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy--Australia--Victoria.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy.
- Denialism.
- Critical discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018.
- Summary:
- The study of institutional responses to child sexual abuse within Christian churches is a phenomenon difficult to study as churches are closed institutions--defensive amidst the present societal attention toward clerical abuse. Drawing from my experiences in a Criminology Honors program, this case study illustrates how Critical Discourse Analysis can be used to undertake research where access to participants/data is difficult due to being labeled as "high risk" or otherwise "sensitive" research. My honors research sought to test the presence of a causal connexion between certain components of Roman Catholicism (clerical exemption from mandatory reporting; the confessional seal) and church secrecy toward clergy-child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Critical Discourse Analysis was employed to analyze 28 documents from a governmental sexual abuse inquiry in Victoria, Australia. The analysis incorporated the frameworks of nation-state denial theory and techniques of neutralization to uncover patterns of secrecy and denial in the Church's approaches, proposed and actual, to clergy-child sexual abuse as reported to the inquiry. This case study recounts my experiences of learning and "doing" Critical Discourse Analysis for the first time and overcoming self-doubt, as well as commends the use of the method in sociological research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 1-5264-4708-8
- 9781526447081
- OCLC:
- 1023830965
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