The shame that lingers
Subtitle: a survivor-centered critique of Catholic sin-talk
By: A. Denise Starkey.
Series: American university studies. VII, Theology and religion -- v.  293
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433106767
Subjects: Shame -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Narrating the suffering of child abuse and trauma; title: Awakening from the nightmare : the origins of child maltreatment; title: Child maltreatment in the Ancient and Middle Ages; title: The ambiguity of the Christian contribution; title: The current situation of violence against children; title: The advent of awareness of child maltreatment; title: Telling the truth of child maltreatment; title: What constitutes child abuse?; title: Secrecy, betrayal, isolation; title: The traumatic aftermath of violence; title: Posttraumatic stress disorder and childhood violence; title: An implosion of the self : the study of shame; title: The legacy of shame; title: Shame in the ancient world; title: Shame in Judaism and Christianity; title: Shame in modernity; title: Toward an understanding of shame; title: The experience of shame; title: The embodiment of shame; title: Shame and emotion; title: Distinguishing between shame and guilt; title: Shame and empathy; title: Coping with shame; title: Cognitive and affective models; title: Ways of avoiding shame; title: Chronic shame and shame-based identity; title: The compass of shame; title: Shame as a consequence of trauma; title: The sinned-against and the shame of sin-talk; title: A perspectival shift to the sinned-against; title: A review of sin-talk in the tradition; title: Augustine's original sin; title: Sin as acts : the legal approach; title: Persistence of the juridical model; title: Feminist deconstructions of sin; title: Gendered sin-talk; title: Sexism as original sin; title: The glorification of suffering; title: The problem of shame in sin-talk; title: Shame in Augustine; title: The hierarchy's deflection of shame; title: Ashamed of scandal : zero tolerance as a case study; title: Sin and identity; title: Implications of a new angle of vision; title: The other in confession : silence, shame, subjectivity; title: Confession in the post-conciliar age; title: The legacy of shame in confession; title: Understanding contemporary resistance; title: Women and confession; title: The grammar of shame; title: A rhetorical model of violence; title: First rule in a grammar of shame : self-blame and culpability; title: Second rule in a grammar of shame : internalizing religious and idealized images; title: Third rule in a grammar of shame : surrendering to silence; title: The oscillating rhythm of testimony and witnessing; title: The necessity of testimony; title: The impossibility of testimony; title: Testimony as a genuine advent; title: Witnessing as a condition for subjectivity; title: The necessity of witnessing; title: Obstacles to witnessing; title: Toward an ethics of witnessing; title: Movements toward flourishing; title: Reviewing the argument four key threads; title: First thread: A perspectival shift to the sinned against; title: Second thread: Critiquing the juridical model of sin talk; title: Third thread: The harmful grammar of shame; title: Fourth thread: Testimony and an ethics of witnessing; title: Some implications for flourishing; title: The critical principle of flourishing; title: Is shame consistent with a principle of flourishing?; title: The possibility of shame-free discourses of sin; title: Confession as a mutual dialectic of listening and speaking; title: A final implication : God's silence or God's listening.