Over the last five years, Catholic clerical sexual abuse has received unprecedented attention from institutions of Catholic higher education, and from scholars of Catholicism in their research and writing. Sexual abuse within other religious traditions has also received more attention than ever before, across various sub-disciplines within religious studies. This roundtable gathers ten scholars who research religion and abuse within different contexts for a conversation about where things go from here. How does work on religion and abuse built during this recent period lay the groundwork for a longer-term field (or fields) of inquiry, and what will that transition look like? How does the study of abuse inform the study of religion moving forward, either as a coherent field in itself, or as a topic that informs or even reshapes other fields of study?
| Kathleen Holscher | kholscher@unm.edu | View |