Product Description: During the past several years the mass media in the United States has been awash with reports of priestly pedophilia, ecclesiastical cover-up, and clerical intimidation or financial settlements intended to silence victims. Based on journalistic accounts, or scholarly research, it might be assumed that this is a recent phenomenon...read more

Product Description: A collection of papers on extreme cases of mobbing in higher education, this book addresses two basic questions about this pathology: what is it? How does one study it? It offers answers to both questions and suggests numerous hypotheses about causes and consequences, remedy and prevention...read more

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Product Description: Anson Shupe is a sociologist who has studied extensively the problem of clergy (priests, ministers, rabbis, gurus) who take advantage sexually or financially of members of their churches and groups―from televangelists like Jim Bakker or Robert Tilton to the infamous Father James Porter who sexually molested at least 200 children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume proposes that across many cultures, the revival of religious fundamentalism is a response to the globalization of economies and markets, the weakening of the autonomy of national political sovereignties, and the corruption of cultural autonomy because global information systems are intruding upon regional and ethnic symbolic orders and modes of discourse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an updated reprint of a minor classic in the socio-politics of religion, "The Mormon Corporate Empire". This commercially successful (but scholarly respectable) expos_ blends sociological analysis with investigative journalism and demonstrates: that those who investigate the underbelly of large American religions will not only find "muck" but likely experience derision and even persecution; and that no religion in American society, as a protected institution, can expect or ultimately receive sacrosanct status that exempts it from public accountability...read more

Examines incidents of scandal, corruption, abuse of power, and murder within the Mormon Church, in a case study of virtue gone astray

An inside look at the Mormon Church discusses its political and financial agenda, and the ways it has sought to extend its influence into nearly every sector of American life

Looks at the PTL scandal, assesses the influence of the evangelical movement, and discusses Pat Robertson's presidential campaign

Product Description: Book by Shupe, Anson, Stacey, William A., Hazlewood, Lonnie R.

An inside look at the Mormon Church discusses its political and financial agenda, and the ways it has sought to extend its influence into nearly every sector of American life

Candid interviews with all of the family members--wife, husband, and children--in families shattered by family violence are interwoven with statistical profiles to portray the facts of family violence, with accompanying information on counseling programs