Christian Shame and Religious Trauma

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3447084
AutoresAlison Downie (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número10
Páginas925
Fecha de publicación2022-10-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13100925
OpenAlexW4303969063
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas16

The analysis of religious trauma is enriched by considering how it may be produced by formation in chronic shame. The testimony of those who have experienced religious trauma and severe religious shame is essential to interdisciplinary understanding of and response to this harm. The experiences of those harmed indicates that some traditional Christian doctrinal interpretations are shaming. Thus, the potential for Christian communities to create climates of chronic shame and cause religious trauma is present wherever such theological interpretations dominate. In this way, the religious teachings themselves, especially when communicated in chronically shaming environments, are traumatizing. In this approach, Christian religious trauma is not an added element to traumas of domestic, physical, or sexual abuse by a religious person or leader. Instead, the source of the trauma is formative experience of participating in Christianity. Religious trauma merits interdisciplinary study in Religious Studies and trauma studies, as well as Christian theology. Theological response to Christian religious trauma contributes to this interdisciplinary need

Christianity · Harm · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sexual abuse · Shame · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology