Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems

Informationen zum Autor Benyei, Candace R. Klappentext In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, readers will take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and learn how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how communities and congregations can quell the damaging tradition of silence. Zusammenfassung In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, you'll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how you can quell the damaging tradition of silence.Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems helps you see leaders of religious institutions in a way that the world has been afraid to see them--in a glass clearly. Enriched with metaphoric myths and fairy tales instead of technical jargon, its unique systemic perspective reveals the psychodynamics behind the obsession with family secrets and lets you understand this dysfunction from the perspectives of victim, abuser, and counselor. These specific areas will both inform and aid you in dealing with this difficult subject: the religious institution as a family system the religious system as an illusion of the perfect family the concept of God-transference and the overidealization of clergy clergy personal relationships and clergy congregational relationships vulnerability and the psychology of the victim strategies for healing dysfunctional religious systems Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems comes at just the right time--in an era when little has been written on the subject, especially from a systemic perspective, this work comes at a time when the phenomena of clergy sexual misconduct has rocked the very foundation of religious systems worldwide. Whether you're a lay congregational leader, judicatory administrator, pastoral counselor, psychologist, or seminarian, you'll find that the coping strategies and intervention techniques it outlines will guide you in pinpointing the sickness at its source and restoring felicity and order to your religious leaders and their communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Congregation as a Family System The Role of Rules Power and Projection The Impact of History The Religious Institution as a Family System The Congregation as a Marriage Summary Chapter 2. The Illusion of Eden and the Fortified City A Lack of Emotional Nourishment and the Hunger to Be Filled Faith, Belief, Trust, Commitment, and the Hope of Security The Fear of Conflict The Fortified City: The Public Face of Prosperity That Hides the Private Face of Poverty God in the Garden: The Idolization of the Spiritual Leader Summary Chapter 3. God-Transference, The Good Object, and the Make-Up of Ministers God Transference and the Good Object The Makeup of Ministers Summary Chapter 4. Mirroring God: Clergy in Relationship Relationship as Marriage Relationship as Vocation Summary Chapter 5. The Issue of Clergy Sexual Misconduct Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse The Issue of Power: Abandonment, Authority, and Animal Force How It Happens: Misconduct from the Part of the Perpetrator Summary Chapter 6. Vulnerability and the Psychology of the Victim How the Primary Victim Becomes Involved Why the Victim Doesn t Disclose Secondary Victims False Accusations A Matter of Ethics Summary Chapter 7. The Scapegoat as the Bearer of Evil Scapegoating i...

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Benyei, Candace R.

Klappentext

In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, readers will take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and learn how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how communities and congregations can quell the damaging tradition of silence.

Zusammenfassung

In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, you'll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how you can quell the damaging tradition of silence.Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems helps you see leaders of religious institutions in a way that the world has been afraid to see them--in a glass clearly. Enriched with metaphoric myths and fairy tales instead of technical jargon, its unique systemic perspective reveals the psychodynamics behind the obsession with family secrets and lets you understand this dysfunction from the perspectives of victim, abuser, and counselor. These specific areas will both inform and aid you in dealing with this difficult subject:

• the religious institution as a family system
• the religious system as an illusion of the perfect family
• the concept of God-transference and the overidealization of clergy
• clergy personal relationships and clergy congregational relationships
• vulnerability and the psychology of the victim
• strategies for healing dysfunctional religious systems Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems comes at just the right time--in an era when little has been written on the subject, especially from a systemic perspective, this work comes at a time when the phenomena of clergy sexual misconduct has rocked the very foundation of religious systems worldwide. Whether you're a lay congregational leader, judicatory administrator, pastoral counselor, psychologist, or seminarian, you'll find that the coping strategies and intervention techniques it outlines will guide you in pinpointing the sickness at its source and restoring felicity and order to your religious leaders and their communities.

Inhalt

Contents
Foreword

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Congregation as a Family System
• The Role of Rules
• Power and Projection
• The Impact of History
• The Religious Institution as a Family System
• The Congregation as a Marriage
• Summary
• Chapter 2. The Illusion of Eden and the Fortified City
• A Lack of Emotional Nourishment and the Hunger to Be Filled
• Faith, Belief, Trust, Commitment, and the Hope of Security
• The Fear of Conflict
• The Fortified City: The Public Face of Prosperity That Hides the Private Face of Poverty
• God in the Garden: The Idolization of the Spiritual Leader
• Summary
• Chapter 3. God-Transference, The Good Object, and the Make-Up of Ministers
• God Transference and the Good Object
• The Makeup of Ministers
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Mirroring God: Clergy in Relationship
• Relationship as Marriage
• Relationship as Vocation
• Summary
• Chapter 5. The Issue of Clergy Sexual Misconduct
• Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse
• The Issue of Power: Abandonment, Authority, and Animal Force
• How It Happens: Misconduct from the Part of the Perpetrator
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Vulnerability and the Psychology of the Victim
• How the Primary Victim Becomes Involved
• Why the Victim Doesn't Disclose
• Secondary Victims
• False Accusations
• A Matter of Ethics
• Summary
• Chapter 7. The Scapegoat as the Bearer of Evil
• Scapegoating in Families
• Scapegoating in Communities
• Scapegoati…