Listening in Stereo and Communicating in Semaphore: Child Sexual Abuse Survivor-led Strategies for Culture Change in the Catholic Church

Alana Harris

doi:10.55476/001c.125232

Listening in Stereo and Communicating in Semaphore: Child Sexual Abuse Survivor-led Strategies for Culture Change in the Catholic Church

Alana Harris

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This expository piece, focusing on a grassroots movement called LOUDfence to address child sexual abuse in religious settings, explores the ways in which the symbolic activity of tying ribbons to church fences offers an active and adaptable listening strategy for giving visibility and voice to survivors and survivor-allies. Working through signs, symbols, embodied actions and ecclesial metaphors, it offers a methodology and mode for creative, trauma-informed and lay-led cultural change in the Catholic and Anglican church contexts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	217-238
Journal	Journal of Moral Theology
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.55476/001c.125232
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2024

Keywords

child sexual abuse
Catholicism
Social Movements

UN SDGs

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Listening in Stereo and Communicating in Semaphore: Child Sexual Abuse Survivor-led Strategies for Culture Change in the Catholic Church

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