This title presents a timely and compelling expose of the hidden world of child maltreatment in some religious organisations. High-profile cases such as child sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and 'faith healing' deaths in certain fundamentalist Christian congregations have raised public awareness that religion can sometimes mask deviant and harmful behaviour. Drawing on interviews with dozens of victims, perpetrators, and experts, "Breaking Their Will" explores how and why religious child maltreatment happens, and its many forms - including biblically prescribed corporal punishment, scaring kids into faith and other types of emotional maltreatment, paedophilic abuse by religious authorities, and failure of religious organizations to support the victims and punish the perpetrators, and religiously motivated medical neglect in cases of serious health problems.
