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Monash University
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-06-2023
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X23000249
Abstract: This article investigates clerical child sexual abuse in the first decades of the French Third Republic. Thanks in large part to the difficulty of accessing relevant archival records, we know very little about this crime or how it was investigated by judicial officials. This study addresses this gap by drawing on a rich and untapped collection of correspondence between local prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice in Paris. The files reveal the process for investigating and prosecuting abusive priests, as well as the reverberations within local communities. Though generated by the state rather than the church, they offer an insight as well into the response of ecclesiastical authorities. Finally, they shed light on the relationship between clerical crime and the culture wars pitting French republicans against Catholics, a conflict that was reaching a peak of intensity in this period. What emerges from this study is an appreciation of the personal toll and political impact of clerical sexual abuse, as well as a new perspective on the recent scandals which have engulfed the Catholic church in a range of nations.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 30-09-2015
DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00204005
Abstract: This article investigates one of the most curious figures in the anti-Jesuit arsenal, the female Jesuit, or Jesuitess. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of the Jesuits in a range of nations warned that the bedrock institutions of society were vulnerable to infiltration by this figure who in their mind combined Jesuit cunning with feminine charm. This made the female Jesuit, in words that were repeated in exposés of the Society, even more dangerous than the male Jesuit. Perhaps paradoxically, the female Jesuit tells us a great deal about the imagined nature of Jesuit masculinity. The existence of such a creature could seem plausible because Jesuitism itself appeared to be shrouded in an ambiguous masculinity. As an imagined space where gender confusion rather than clarity was thought to reign, the Society of Jesus naturally spawned a figure like the female Jesuit.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 25-10-2011
DOI: 10.1093/JCS/CSR107
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-12-2016
DOI: 10.1017/MDH.2016.102
Abstract: In the first decades of the twentieth century, a group of doctors under the banner of the social hygiene movement set out on what seemed an improbable mission: to convince American men that they did not need sex. This was in part a response to venereal disease. Persuading young men to adopt the standard of sexual discipline demanded of women was the key to preserving the health of the nation from the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhoea. But their c aign ran up against the doctrine of male sexual necessity, a doctrine well established in medical thought and an article of faith for many patients. Initially, social hygienists succeeded in rallying much of the medical community. But this success was followed by a series of setbacks. Significant dissent remained within the profession. Even more alarmingly, behavioural studies proved that many men simply were not listening. The attempt to repudiate the doctrine of male sexual necessity showed the ambition of Progressive-era doctors, but also their powerlessness in the face of entrenched beliefs about the linkage in men between sex, health and success.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-09-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-05-2022
DOI: 10.1093/EHR/CEAC115
Abstract: This article investigates a sexual scandal that rocked the English Catholic Church in the Victorian era. Though forgotten today, Monsignor Thomas John Capel was one of the most famous clerics in the Victorian Church. His career fell into turmoil when, in 1879, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning launched a diocesan commission to investigate charges of sexual misconduct involving three women. Drawing on a series of rich and as yet unexplored archival sources, the article charts the career of Thomas Capel and assesses the nature, aims and outcomes of the Church-run inquiry into his conduct. Through an analysis of the actions not just of Capel but of Church authorities both in Westminster and in Rome, we gain a revealing window onto sexual scandal and the Church’s response to it in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-12-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-05-2022
DOI: 10.1093/FH/CRAC035
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2008
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1177/02656914221140018
Abstract: This article investigates a c aign by the French Catholic Church to bring men to Mass in the first decades of the Third Republic. Historians have long noted the gender imbalance in religious practice in France in this era. Less attention has been paid, however, to the mobilization on the part of leading clerics to tackle the problem of male religious indifference. This response took the form of a range of initiatives – pastoral visits, male-only Masses, study circles, missions and more. But the Church went further in order to overcome the obstacle of the ‘respect humain’, the fear of public mockery that kept so many men away from the Church doors. In order to inspire courage in laymen, it published narratives of Catholic heroes. Another means of encouraging piety was an association dedicated to the Sacred Heart which organized a male-only pilgrimage to Lourdes. An understanding of this c aign to evangelize men throws light on a neglected area of religious history, the relationship between religion and masculinity. It also offers a new dimension on the War of Two Frances which reached such a peak of intensity in the decade after 1900.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2014
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.7560/JHS24102
Start Date: 06-2013
End Date: 11-2018
Amount: $338,512.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2020
End Date: 06-2024
Amount: $839,871.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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