{"product_id":"ecclesiastical-robots-9798258708120","title":"Ecclesiastical Robots","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ann Ferry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eECCLESIATICAL ROBOTS written by Ann Ferry, explores the Irish reluctance to face up to the\u003cbr\u003elegacy of widespread institutional abuse has been remarkable in the long crisis in the Catholic\u003cbr\u003eChurch. Instead of principled stock taking, defensiveness and even blaming the victims have\u003cbr\u003ebeen the norm.\u003cbr\u003eThe reflexive field of fiction has long been used by the Irish to consider history. ECCLESIASTICAL\u003cbr\u003eROBOTS is based on factual stories reminding us that the life for the training of postulants\u003cbr\u003eentering the convent to become nuns was frequently a truly traumatic and dehumanizing\u003cbr\u003eprocess exposing oppression by authority within religious orders often with sad results. The\u003cbr\u003ebook explores a dysfunctional and controlling culture where rules were to be obeyed at any\u003cbr\u003ecost and cruelty was imposed for the slightest infraction. The book highlights that life in many\u003cbr\u003ereligious entities became robotic and obedience to every schedule and routine summoned\u003cbr\u003eautomatic responses.\u003cbr\u003eThe public perception of religious institutions is that the people who enter them are good and\u003cbr\u003ecaring and compassionate. Though ECCLESIASTICAL ROBOTS is a work of fiction it is based on\u003cbr\u003ereality and supports the premise that very frequently, all is not what it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891373260951,"sku":"9798258708120","price":929.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258708120.webp?v=1781183448","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ecclesiastical-robots-9798258708120","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}