Findings – Abuse in Religious Contexts

Project Findings

The project included six individual studies focusing on personal, organisational and professional/policy dimensions of abuse in religious contexts.

Summaries of findings from these individual studies will be uploaded on to this site as they are launched during the spring and summer of 2025.

Click here to see the findings from our study of victim-survivors’ reflections on what helped them in surviving or coping with the effects of abuse in a religious context (launched 17th June 2025)

Click here to see the findings from our study of victim-survivors’ experiences and reflections in relation to disclosing, or not disclosing, abuse in religious contexts (launched 17th June 2025)

Click here to see the findings from our workshop-based study on the role of sacred texts in enabling and resisting abuse in religious contexts (launched 24th April 2025)

Click here to see the findings from our study on social and cultural risk factors for abuse in religious contexts (launched 4th April 2025)

Click here to see the findings from our study on mandatory reporting laws and religion (launched 6th February 2025)

Publications

More detailed findings from the project are also being published in the form of open access books and journal articles which will appear from 2025 onwards. A list of these will be uploaded on to this site as they begin to be published.

Forthcoming publications:

(ed.) Johanna Stiebert, Abuse in World Religions: Articulating the Problem (Routledge open access, published June 2025)
(ed.) Johanna Stiebert, Abuse in World Religions: Towards Solutions (Routledge open access, due to be published 9th July 2025)

Jan 17, 2025

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