Editors:
- Céline Béraud, Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (Centre for Social Science Studies of Religion), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) - Academia.edu

- Giuseppe Giordan, Dipartimento di Filosofia, sociologia, pedagogia e psicologia applicata (Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua) - ORCID, ResearchGate

Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables (p. vii)
	Notes on Contributors (p. viii)
	From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An Introduction (p. 1)    Céline Béraud and Giuseppe Giordan
	1 Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church in France: Contribution to the Sociology of a Scandal (p. 16)    Philippe Portier
	2 From ‘Clergy Sexual Abuse’ to a More Comprehensive Concept of Abuse in the Catholic Church: Major Cultural and Social Shifts in the USA (p. 38)    Massimo Faggioli
	3 Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Catholicism: Centering the Role of the Vatican (p. 56)    Brian Conway
	Sexual Abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church (p. 75)    Stefan Gärtner
	5 The Sauvé Report: What’s Next? Anatomy of the French Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal (p. 94)    Céline Béraud
	6 Missing Incidents and Masking Scandals: Religious Orders’ Swiss Cheese Organization and Neutralization Techniques (p. 110)    Rebecca K. Murray, Heather Fryer and Julia Feder
	“It Is the Abuses That Made Me Click”: Formal Disaffiliation as Mobilization against the Catholic Church (p. 127)    Julia Martínez-Ariño
	8 From Cases to Scandals? Media Representations of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy (p. 145)    Stefano Sbalchiero, Giuseppe Giordan and Piermarco Aroldi
	9 An Aborted Scandal? Denunciatory Discourse and Media Marginalization of Sexually Abused Nuns in France (p. 166)    Clémence Douteau
	10 A (Non)Disruptive Scandal? The Fragmented Societalization of the Problem of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy (p. 185)    Marco Guglielmi
	11 Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Croatia: Cases but Not (Yet?) Scandals (p. 205)    Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić, Siniša Zrinščak and Dinka Marinović Jerolimov
	12 Sacred Eroticism within the Catholic Church: the Philippe Family, Jean Vanier, and Their Secret Society (p. 222)    Massimo Introvigne
	13 The Catholic Church and the Scandal of Indigenous Unmarked Graves: a Catalyst of Social, Political and Historical Tensions towards Catholicism in Canada (p. 238)    E.-Martin Meunier and Sabrina Di Matteo
	14 Clerical Offenders as Family Friends: a Pilot Study of Case-to-Scandal Dynamics in Czechia Using Open-Source Data (p. 264)    Michal Opatrný
	15 Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland: the Role of Media and Cinema (p. 281)    Magdalena Ratajczak
	Index (p. 297)

Description: » The volume "From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church" contributes to the sociology of religion by examining how individual cases of clerical sexual abuse escalate (or not) into scandals that challenge religious authority and reshape institutional life. It explores how the strategies of public mobilisation and media responses encourage collective reflection and action to ensure accountability and societal change. Through case studies from Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, and USA, this volume explores Church responses, believers’ reactions, and the shifting dynamics of trust and legitimacy. It highlights how these developments affect religious affiliation, moral credibility, and the public role of the Church, offering new perspectives on the evolving relationship between religion, society, and scandal in contemporary contexts.« (Source: Brill)

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