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Hare Krishna: child abuse
  
E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
Jennifer Heinlein
  
 
     

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Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986

 

All these boys must be taken care of very nicely.  They are the future hope (Prabhupada letter, July, 1974, in Prabhupada 1992:795).

 

These kids were growing up and seriously leaving [ISKCON].  Not a little bit leaving.  Not leaving and being favourable, still chanting and living outside.  Nothing like that.  They were leaving.  And suddenly it was like ‘What happened?’  And then it started to be revealed that the kids were molested. (Long-time ISKCON teacher, interview 1990)1 

Religion and child abuse, ‘ “perfect together” . . .and mutually attractive.’  So concludes Donald Capps in his 1992 presidential address to members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Mutually attractive in spite of the fact that religion has often vigorously defended the rights of children, including condemning child abuse and neglect (Capps 1992; Costin et al. 1996:47).  Yet research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children (Capps 1992; Ellison and Sherkat 1993; Greven 1990; Jenkins 1996). Moreover, church structures may provide opportunities for abusive clergy (Krebs 1998; Shupe 1995). 

This paper deals with how children in a religious organisation were abused physically, psychologically and sexually by people responsible for their care and well being.  My purpose is to describe the problem as it existed within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. This discussion of child abuse within ISKCON is a historical one.2   I consider child abuse and neglect within the context of ISKCON's boarding schools or ashram-based gurukulasas they existed from 1972 until the mid-1980s.  I develop a sociologically informed framework to understand how and why child abuse and neglect took place.  Thus my attempt is not concerned with identifying or explaining the ‘causes’ of child abuse by focusing on the abuser per se.  Rather attention is given to a variety of organisational factors that fostered, and indeed created opportunities for child abuse to occur within ISKCON's schools.     

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Hare Krishna: child abuse
  
E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
Jennifer Heinlein
  
 
     

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Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986

 

All these boys must be taken care of very nicely.  They are the future hope (Prabhupada letter, July, 1974, in Prabhupada 1992:795).

 

These kids were growing up and seriously leaving [ISKCON].  Not a little bit leaving.  Not leaving and being favourable, still chanting and living outside.  Nothing like that.  They were leaving.  And suddenly it was like ‘What happened?’  And then it started to be revealed that the kids were molested. (Long-time ISKCON teacher, interview 1990)1 

Religion and child abuse, ‘ “perfect together” . . .and mutually attractive.’  So concludes Donald Capps in his 1992 presidential address to members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Mutually attractive in spite of the fact that religion has often vigorously defended the rights of children, including condemning child abuse and neglect (Capps 1992; Costin et al. 1996:47).  Yet research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children (Capps 1992; Ellison and Sherkat 1993; Greven 1990; Jenkins 1996). Moreover, church structures may provide opportunities for abusive clergy (Krebs 1998; Shupe 1995). 

This paper deals with how children in a religious organisation were abused physically, psychologically and sexually by people responsible for their care and well being.  My purpose is to describe the problem as it existed within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. This discussion of child abuse within ISKCON is a historical one.2   I consider child abuse and neglect within the context of ISKCON's boarding schools or ashram-based gurukulasas they existed from 1972 until the mid-1980s.  I develop a sociologically informed framework to understand how and why child abuse and neglect took place.  Thus my attempt is not concerned with identifying or explaining the ‘causes’ of child abuse by focusing on the abuser per se.  Rather attention is given to a variety of organisational factors that fostered, and indeed created opportunities for child abuse to occur within ISKCON's schools.     

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Hare Krishna: child abuse
  
E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
Jennifer Heinlein
  
 
     

1/22

Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986

 

All these boys must be taken care of very nicely.  They are the future hope (Prabhupada letter, July, 1974, in Prabhupada 1992:795).

 

These kids were growing up and seriously leaving [ISKCON].  Not a little bit leaving.  Not leaving and being favourable, still chanting and living outside.  Nothing like that.  They were leaving.  And suddenly it was like ‘What happened?’  And then it started to be revealed that the kids were molested. (Long-time ISKCON teacher, interview 1990)1 

Religion and child abuse, ‘ “perfect together” . . .and mutually attractive.’  So concludes Donald Capps in his 1992 presidential address to members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Mutually attractive in spite of the fact that religion has often vigorously defended the rights of children, including condemning child abuse and neglect (Capps 1992; Costin et al. 1996:47).  Yet research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children (Capps 1992; Ellison and Sherkat 1993; Greven 1990; Jenkins 1996). Moreover, church structures may provide opportunities for abusive clergy (Krebs 1998; Shupe 1995). 

This paper deals with how children in a religious organisation were abused physically, psychologically and sexually by people responsible for their care and well being.  My purpose is to describe the problem as it existed within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. This discussion of child abuse within ISKCON is a historical one.2   I consider child abuse and neglect within the context of ISKCON's boarding schools or ashram-based gurukulasas they existed from 1972 until the mid-1980s.  I develop a sociologically informed framework to understand how and why child abuse and neglect took place.  Thus my attempt is not concerned with identifying or explaining the ‘causes’ of child abuse by focusing on the abuser per se.  Rather attention is given to a variety of organisational factors that fostered, and indeed created opportunities for child abuse to occur within ISKCON's schools.     

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Hare Krishna: child abuse
  
E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
Jennifer Heinlein
  
 
     

1/22

Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986

 

All these boys must be taken care of very nicely.  They are the future hope (Prabhupada letter, July, 1974, in Prabhupada 1992:795).

 

These kids were growing up and seriously leaving [ISKCON].  Not a little bit leaving.  Not leaving and being favourable, still chanting and living outside.  Nothing like that.  They were leaving.  And suddenly it was like ‘What happened?’  And then it started to be revealed that the kids were molested. (Long-time ISKCON teacher, interview 1990)1 

Religion and child abuse, ‘ “perfect together” . . .and mutually attractive.’  So concludes Donald Capps in his 1992 presidential address to members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Mutually attractive in spite of the fact that religion has often vigorously defended the rights of children, including condemning child abuse and neglect (Capps 1992; Costin et al. 1996:47).  Yet research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children (Capps 1992; Ellison and Sherkat 1993; Greven 1990; Jenkins 1996). Moreover, church structures may provide opportunities for abusive clergy (Krebs 1998; Shupe 1995). 

This paper deals with how children in a religious organisation were abused physically, psychologically and sexually by people responsible for their care and well being.  My purpose is to describe the problem as it existed within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. This discussion of child abuse within ISKCON is a historical one.2   I consider child abuse and neglect within the context of ISKCON's boarding schools or ashram-based gurukulasas they existed from 1972 until the mid-1980s.  I develop a sociologically informed framework to understand how and why child abuse and neglect took place.  Thus my attempt is not concerned with identifying or explaining the ‘causes’ of child abuse by focusing on the abuser per se.  Rather attention is given to a variety of organisational factors that fostered, and indeed created opportunities for child abuse to occur within ISKCON's schools.     

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