Abuse in religious settings: organisational cultures, public policy and survivors' experiences

这个项目将是世界上第一个对与各种宗教传统的虐待有关的体制、政策、专业和个人问题进行重大跨学科研究的项目。它还将开辟新的领域，持续注意在这方面虐待的经历和影响的两个不同方面- -以及修复、恢复和复原的过程- -利用幸存者的经历作为其调查的基础。该项目围绕七项相互关联的研究组成，将汇集一个经验丰富的多学科研究团队，并与虐待幸存者进行广泛接触，从而构成该领域研究的一个转变。核心项目团队将包括宗教研究方面的高级研究人员，宗教组织中虐待行为的心理、法律和政策问题专家，以及在一系列宗教传统中与虐待幸存者一起工作的丰富经验的其他人。除了产生通过一系列传统学术成果传播的新知识外，该项目还将为幸存者个人和与他们一起工作的团体、决策者、保护专业人员、信仰团体以及参与宗教领袖教育和培训的人员提供广泛的其他资源。该项目将编纂一部具有里程碑意义的关于宗教和虐待的著作，该书将成为该领域的一个关键参考点，同时还将编纂和撰写其他书籍和文章、报告、电影和播客，以及为法定和宗教组织的领导人和保障人员提供的培训材料。在汇集了英国和国际上该领域的专业人士的同时，该项目还将巩固国家和国际网络，这些网络将在项目结束后继续进行研究和参与活动。该项目将以主要国家调查机构（如对儿童性虐待的机构反应皇家委员会和对儿童性虐待的独立调查委员会）的工作所产生的关于宗教背景下虐待的大量材料为基础。虽然没有确凿的证据表明虐待在宗教组织中比在更广泛的社会中更普遍，但这些调查已经从宗教组织、幸存者和其他利益相关者那里得到了大量的意见，并且前所未有地访问了宗教组织的记录，认为宗教组织特有的因素导致了虐待发生的条件和对虐待的不良反应。由于我们的一些项目团队已经参与了国家虐待调查和其他相关机构的工作，该项目将在此分析的基础上，更深入地建立宗教组织的文化和结构如何与虐待相交叉，公共政策和保障实践如何最好地应对这些环境中的虐待，以及这些宗教背景下幸存者的经历有哪些方面是特别的。该项目对这一领域的贡献还将来自它对宗教研究的理论方法和实质性知识的更实质性的参与，这将为目前这一领域现有的主要是社会科学的文献带来新的视角。

This project will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world to undertake a major inter-disciplinary study of institutional, policy, professional and individual issues in relation to abuse across a wide range of religious traditions. It will also break new ground in paying sustained attention to both distinctive aspects of the experience and effects of abuse in this context - as well as processes of repair, restitution and recovery - using survivor experiences as the basis of its investigation.Structured around seven inter-related pieces of research, the project will constitute a step-change for research in this field by bringing together an experienced multi-disciplinary research team with extensive contacts with survivors of abuse. The core project team will include senior researchers in the study of religion, specialists in psychological, legal and policy issues on abuse in religious organisations, and others with substantial experience of working with survivors of abuse across a range of religious traditions. In addition to generating new knowledge, disseminated through a range of traditional academic outputs, the project will also produce a wide range of other resources for individual survivors and for groups working with them, policy-makers, safeguarding professionals, faith communities and those involved in the education and training of religious leaders. The project will lead to the production of a landmark edited volume on religion and abuse that will become a key point of reference in this field, as well as other edited and authored books and articles, reports, films and podcasts, and training materials for leaders and safeguarding staff in statutory and religious organisations. In bringing together a range of individuals with expertise in this field in the UK and internationally, the project will also consolidate national and international networks which will continue to undertake research and engagement activities beyond the life of this project.The project will build on the substantial body of material on abuse in religious contexts generated through the work of major national inquiries such as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). Whilst there is no conclusive evidence of abuse being any more prevalent in religious organisations than wider society, these inquiries have drawn on substantial submissions from religious organisations, survivors and other stakeholders, and on unprecedented access to records of religious organisations, to argue that factors specific to religious organisations contribute to conditions in which abuse has taken place and poor institutional responses to abuse are made. With a number of our project team already having been involved in the work of national abuse inquiries and other relevant bodies, this project will build on this analysis to establish in greater depth how the cultures and structures of religious organisations inter-sect with abuse, how public policy and safeguarding practice can best respond to abuse in these settings and what aspects of survivors' experience are particular to these religious contexts. The project's contribution to this field will also result from its more substantial engagement with theoretical approaches and substantive knowledge from the study of religion which will bring new perspectives to the existing, primarily social-scientific, literature in this field at present.