Beyond Accountability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4054108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony M Petro |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 122 |
| Pages | 160-176 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-2849594 |
| OpenAlex | W2487963327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
BishopAccountability.org describes itself as "an archive of archives" that seeks to document the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. It publishes online the records of church administration and abuse for hundreds of dioceses across the United States dating back to the mid-twentieth century. In addition to diocesan and religious order documents, it holds criminal investigation records, accounts from survivors, and media coverage of the crisis. This essay takes up BishopAccountability.org as a queer archive, demonstrating both its effort to liberate victims from the clerical closet and its insistence on the political act of making stories about sex public. Queering this archive also challenges the normative politics of queer history, prompting historians to ask what it would mean to take up the conjunction of these two sites, sexual abuse and Catholicism, as queer-to account not only for sexual practices we value politically but also those we contest
Accountability · Closet · CONTEST · Criminology · Normative · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sexual abuse · Sociology · Suicide prevention · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law
Desacralizing Sacred Authority
Documenting resistance, conflict and violence
Islands, Enclaves, and the Offshoring of Clerical Sexual Abuse
Queering the Community Music Archive
The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP)
Everyone's Accountable? Peer Sexual Abuse in Religious Schools, Digital Revelations, and Denominational Contests over Protection
Black Church Rumor
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |