Brian J Clites
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian J Clites |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Clites |
| SIGNATURE | CLITES B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Priests on the prowl
‘Monsters’ stalk the discourse of religion and sexual abuse. They have become ubiquitous in courtrooms, grand jury reports, news media, and our everyday lexicon. But a survivor-centered approach reveals that many Catholic victims actually describe clerical abusers in richly complex, human terms. This ethnographic observation prompts the author to interrogate society's heavy reliance on monsters. Why is clerical monstrosity such a durable and endu…
Soul Murder
This article explores the Catholic imaginaries of survivors of clergy sexual abuse by focusing on soul murder, a psychoanalytic concept that the survivor movement appropriated and which has now become central to Catholic survivors’ understandings of their trauma as children. Soul murder names the experience of child sexual abuse as the annihilation of a child’s network of relationships and the ongoing loss as adults of basic relational skills suc…
Soul Murder
This article explores the Catholic imaginaries of survivors of clergy sexual abuse by focusing on soul murder, a psychoanalytic concept that the survivor movement appropriated and which has now become central to Catholic survivors’ understandings of their trauma as children. Soul murder names the experience of child sexual abuse as the annihilation of a child’s network of relationships and the ongoing loss as adults of basic relational skills suc…
Priests on the prowl
‘Monsters’ stalk the discourse of religion and sexual abuse. They have become ubiquitous in courtrooms, grand jury reports, news media, and our everyday lexicon. But a survivor-centered approach reveals that many Catholic victims actually describe clerical abusers in richly complex, human terms. This ethnographic observation prompts the author to interrogate society's heavy reliance on monsters. Why is clerical monstrosity such a durable and endu…
Soul Murder
This article explores the Catholic imaginaries of survivors of clergy sexual abuse by focusing on soul murder, a psychoanalytic concept that the survivor movement appropriated and which has now become central to Catholic survivors’ understandings of their trauma as children. Soul murder names the experience of child sexual abuse as the annihilation of a child’s network of relationships and the ongoing loss as adults of basic relational skills suc…
Priests on the prowl
‘Monsters’ stalk the discourse of religion and sexual abuse. They have become ubiquitous in courtrooms, grand jury reports, news media, and our everyday lexicon. But a survivor-centered approach reveals that many Catholic victims actually describe clerical abusers in richly complex, human terms. This ethnographic observation prompts the author to interrogate society's heavy reliance on monsters. Why is clerical monstrosity such a durable and endu…
Criminology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Poison control (2 works) · Sexual abuse (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Suicide prevention (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Child sexual abuse (1 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 works)