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Date of Award

Spring 2020

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Historical & Political Studies; College of Arts & Sciences

First Advisor

Dr. Hilary Parsons Dick

Abstract

This paper explores how and why we have seen an increase in Western State supervision over religious affairs within the past three decades. An increase in supervision comes as Western States begin to exert greater influence over extra-Statal authorities, in response to a public or national demand for a reevaluation in State–non-State socio-political relations. This article considers, in the evaluation of Church-State relations, how there has been an increase in awareness since the 2000’s of the clerical-Child Sexual Abuse (cCSA) problems present within the Catholic Church, and how this has led to an investigatory response on the part of State authorities where cCSA has reached a breaking point within popular, public opinion (especially in the USA, Ireland, and Australia). It further argues that this response has effected a campaign seeking the homogenization of national ideology, particularly centering around criminal justice theory, and a rejection of non-Western, democratic ideologies.

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International Studies

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Rehabilitating Sexually Abusive Clerics: an examination of the role of clerical-Child Sexual Abuse in contemporary Church-State relations.

This paper explores how and why we have seen an increase in Western State supervision over religious affairs within the past three decades. An increase in supervision comes as Western States begin to exert greater influence over extra-Statal authorities, in response to a public or national demand for a reevaluation in State–non-State socio-political relations. This article considers, in the evaluation of Church-State relations, how there has been an increase in awareness since the 2000’s of the clerical-Child Sexual Abuse (cCSA) problems present within the Catholic Church, and how this has led to an investigatory response on the part of State authorities where cCSA has reached a breaking point within popular, public opinion (especially in the USA, Ireland, and Australia). It further argues that this response has effected a campaign seeking the homogenization of national ideology, particularly centering around criminal justice theory, and a rejection of non-Western, democratic ideologies.