Promoting a safer Church? A critical discourse analysis of the Church of England’s safeguarding policy document

Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Peter Sidebotham
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
The Church ◽  
Policy Setting ◽  
Independent Inquiry

This article examines, by using principles of critical discourse analysis, the safeguarding policy of the Church of England as presented in the policy document Promoting a Safer Church. Overall, the document provides a succinct and comprehensive outline of the Church of England’s safeguarding policy, setting out a broad and whole-church approach to safeguarding that encompasses activities from prevention through to response and taking seriously the concerns of those who have been abused within the institution of the Church. However, the analysis also reveals some weaknesses of definition and accountability and an ongoing need, as highlighted by the recent Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report, for a change in culture and behaviour within the Church.

Child Sexual Abuse, Integrity Systems and the Anglican Church: Truth, Justice and Love

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Virginia Miller ◽  
Seumas Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Commissions Of Inquiry ◽  
Integrity System ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article concerns child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church of Australia and the Church of England and, in particular, an integrity system to combat this problem and the ethical problems it gives rise to. The article relies on the findings of various commissions of inquiry to determine the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church. The two salient ethical problems identified are: (1) design of safety measures in the light of the statistical preponderance of male on male sexuality; (2) justice issues arising from redress schemes established or proposed to provide redress to victims.

scholarly journals ‘It doesn’t meet the requirements of violence or intimidation’. A discursive study of judgments of sexual abuse

Feminismo/s ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
María Martínez-Delgado Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Way

This study delves into the main discourses found in five sexual abuse judgments, in different Spanish Courts. The analysis employs Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis in order to explore the topic of sexual violence, its understanding, and the dominant discourses revealed in these judgments of sexual abuse, and to investigate the way rape cases are treated discursively in Court from a feminist perspective. The dominant discourses found have been those of sexuality; inaction of the survivor; and lack of violence and/or intimidation. Unravelling these hidden ideologies and relationships of power is crucial to give us a better awareness of the dominant ideas surrounding violence against women.

At the intersection between power and knowledge

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso M. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Language Test ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Political Rationality

The aim of this article is to analyse a policy document in which the Swedish Liberal Party attempts to substantiate the proposal to introduce a Swedish language test for naturalisation by referring to academic production. Taking this specific text as a case in point, the article draws upon Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s notion of governmentality to show how the rationalisation and legitimation of a particular political proposal is inextricably related to processes of knowledge production. Governmentality will also allow us to understand that language requirements for citizenship are a tangible manifestation of an advanced liberal political rationality in late modernity.

scholarly journals Dispensation and Liturgy Mediated as an Answer to COVID-19 Restrictions: Empirical Study Based on Polish Online Press Narration

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska ◽  
Marcin Szewczyk ◽  
Andrzej Kiciński ◽  
Barbara Przywara ◽  
Andrzej Adamski
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Standing Position ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

The main objective of this study is to determine the media image of dispensation and liturgy mediated during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. The paper is based on interdisciplinary methodology, which combines elements of practical theology (the see–judge–act paradigm) and a communication and media studies approach (media content analysis, critical discourse analysis). The time range of the analysed media discourse is between 12 and 18 March 2020, which was the first week after issuing government restrictions towards liturgy and the Church’s response to that: granting the dispensation and supporting the mediatisation of liturgy. The material for the discourse analysis includes online editions of 20 Polish press titles. It occurs that the general attitude of the media towards dispensation and liturgy mediated was positive, but some media tended to present the topics according to their editorial policies. The paper also formulates a theological reflection: although liturgy mediated as a permanent solution could be challenging to accept, it allowed worshippers to experience the liturgy in times of isolation. It is, therefore, an expression of the Church’s concern for the health and lives of the faithful, although not entirely in line with the official and long-standing position of the Church towards the mediatisation of the liturgy.

scholarly journals Gendered Attributions of Blame and Failure to Protect in Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110242
Author(s):  
Corry Azzopardi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Failure To Protect ◽  
Attributions Of Blame

Gender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically and institutionally entrenched doctrine of failure to protect. Feminist critical discourse analysis was used to (a) expose and disrupt dominant discourses of gender, motherhood, and risk that operate to construct and reinforce notions of blame and failure to protect, as enacted by way of child welfare text in context; and (b) build a credible case for social and organizational change grounded in an alternative discourse with greater explanatory power. Progressive avenues for resistance, negotiation, and transformation are proposed.

scholarly journals Behaving Badly: Critiquing the Discourses of “Children” and Their (Mis)Behaviours

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Melanie D. Janzen ◽  
Karen Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Behaviour Management ◽  
Poststructural Theory

Discourses of children as deficient and deviant are common within the education system and shape the ways in which educators interact with and respond to children. To illustrate this, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of a provincial policy document that directs schools in the development of Codes of Conduct. Drawing on poststructural theory, we demonstrate the ways in which the discourses within policy construct and reify particular identities of the child and of misbehaviour and how these discourse influence conceptions of behaviour “management.” We argue for a reconceptualization of the identity of the child as a contextualized and socially embedded being. In doing so, we articulate an opening for ethical engagements with children that rely on our responsibility for the other.

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