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Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College - Couverture souple

Whyte, Ewan

 
9781998408238: Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 199840823X ISBN 13 : 9781998408238
Editeur : Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 2025

Synopsis

"On November 16, 2023, the sixteen-year class-action lawsuit against Grenville Christian College finally came to a close. As a former student, I could hardly believe it."

Though the school closed in 2007, it was only in 2019 that the lawsuit of roughly 1,350 students finally went to trial. On February 23, 2020, Justice Janet Leiper issued her decision concluding that "the evidence of maltreatment and the varieties of abuse perpetrated on students' bodies and minds in the name of the COJ [Community of Jesus] values of submission and obedience was class-wide and decades-wide." In these meticulously documented, yet personal essays Ewan Whyte examines the extraordinary history of Grenville and the Community of Jesus, the charismatic Massachusetts-based "church" with close financial and spiritual ties to Grenville, and his own experiences within the school. Drawing on extensive research, he details the experiences of members including Rockefeller heiress Isabel Lincoln Elmer, Christian nationalist authors David Manuel and Peter Marshall Jr. and American serviceman Aaron Bushnell. In Mothers of Invention, Whyte has composed a shocking work that seeks to honour the suffering of the children.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ewan Whyte is a writer, and art and cultural critic. He has written for the Globe & Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture; Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art and Culture; Entrainment, a book of poetry; and Catullus, a translation of the rude ancient Roman poet Catullus. His feature essay "The Cult that Raised Me" on the U.S.-based Community of Jesus/Grenville Christian College cult was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

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Éditeur
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
199840823X
ISBN 13 
9781998408238
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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Personne responsable
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