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Hiding Behind the Collar
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Price: $19.95 Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781591291039
ISBN: 1591291038
Label: PublishAmerica
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 186
Publication Date: 2002-05
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Sales Rank: 1645930
Studio: PublishAmerica
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Book Description: Hiding Behind The Collar, a painfully candid memoir, focuses on the author?s experience of emotional exploitation by a trusted member of the clergy followed by further betrayal of the governing church hierarchy. This book addresses the subject of professional misconduct coupled with abuse of power?a phenomenon affecting a large population, but rarely embraced within a community of faith when disclosure of abuse occurs.
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This book shows the frustration created when any denomination or institution in the community of faith is either unwilling or unable to respond in a way that is sufficient to avoid a sense of re-injury instead of facilitating healing from the trauma and losses that are typically sustained in sexual and/or spiritual abuse in the community of faith. It demonstrates the problems that dual relationships create for congregants and clergy alike. Perhaps its greatest value will be in the needed raising ... Read More
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"Hiding Behind the Collar" is a meticulously written chronicle of one woman's attempt to hold her church accountable for the emotional exploitation she suffered as a result of the trust relationship she had with her pastor.
Often, spiritual and emotional abuse is described only in the context of sexual exploitation. Author Catherine Fairbanks helps readers understand how an exploitative clergy can use the power of position to emotionally manipulate, confuse, and attempt to destroy parishioners ... Read More
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Hiding Behind the Collar by Catherine Brittion Fairbanks is an interesting read about the author's struggle to rectify clergy misconduct in her church. It tells of her battle with the church hierarchy and the stinging disappointment she experienced when neither reconcilliation nor clergy discipline occurred. Hiding Behind the Collar is a road map of one person's journey through a bitter and trying time in life and points the way toward organizations that can help in the healing process.
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In this well written and touching novel, it is obvious the courage of the author to bare all, in a tell all. Fairbanks recants her ordeal in dealing with the Episcopal Church, its conduct and ethics. I found myself rapidly sinking deep beneath the printed words with my heart racing, as I found that I could actually relate to her story... how ironic.
"There are no simple routes to find your way to the center of a maze, and when you do find your way to this resting place, you may find it difficult ... Read More
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As I read this book I became more and more aware of the role of arrogance and silence pervading the Episcopal Church. A church, which has described itself, as the church for thinkers has dismally failed in this case and in many more I suspect.
I was struck by the failure to finance the necessary committee to examine not only sexual but psycological and spiritual abuse committed by clerics on vulnerable laity and laity on each other. This silence keeps both clergy and laity ignorant of their own ... Read More
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