Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe

DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2019/v32n2a5

Keywords: Clergy, sexual abuse, language of deception, courtship language, Christian abuse, women abuse The study employed a qualitative approach. Our sample includes a collection of 17 news articles drawn from several news providers in Zimbabwe. These are either fully online newspapers or online versions of the printed newspapers, which are easy to access. The specific articles were selected using a keyword search on the Internet. The keywords included rape, Zimbabwe, sexual abuse, pastor, and prophet. There was no specific criterion for selecting the newspapers, as the process started by identifying the news articles on the Internet before getting the details of the newspapers in which they were published, which were only relevant as far as they informed us on the credibility of the content as well as for purposes of sourcing.

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