The art of the public grovel: Sexual scandal and the rise of public confession
Between 1969 and 2002, three American politicians (Edward Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton) and three ordained clergymen (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Cardinal Bernard Law) made public confessions of wrongdoing to national audiences. These public confessions reveal that Protestant religiou...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2007
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623323 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3114&context=etd |