Accountability, Healing, and Trust

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Kimberly Hope Belcher is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, in liturgical studies. She uses sacramental and liturgical theology and ritual theory to study Christian worship. Her current research explores the potential of ritual for healing trauma and social crisis in pluralistic societies. Her related publications include "Remembering the Dead, Reconciling the Living: George Floyd and All Souls' Day" (Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2024), "Ritual Techniques in Affliction Rites and the Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical Liturgy of Lund, 2016" (Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022), and the guest edited issue "Sacramental and Liturgical Theology of Healing and Crisis Rites" of Religions (2022). David A. Clairmont teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on comparative religious ethics, particularly the moral thought of Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism, professional ethics (particularly in business contexts), and the connection between ethics and spirituality.

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"Organized around three themes: accountability, healing, and trust, the contributors to this volume probe the understanding of the church's mission and name the most significant divisions in the response to the sexual abuse crisis. This volume focuses on ways forward and treats clergy and lay people, scholars, and ministers as partners in the work of creating an atmosphere of accountability, healing, and trust in the post-abuse-revelation church"--