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Healing the Soul after Religious Abuse: The Dark Heaven of Recovery
by Rauch, Mikele | HC | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780313346705
- Book Title
- Healing the Soul after Religious Abuse : the Dark Heaven of Recovery
- Book Series
- Religion, Health, and Healing Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
- Topic
- Abuse / General, Personal Growth / Happiness, Abuse, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Spiritual, Abuse / Child Abuse, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual, Psychology of Religion
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Recent scandals of clergy sexual abuse have brought attention to the victims and their responses to and recovery from their abuse. But few have considered the effect of the abuse on a victim's soul and religious outlook and beliefs. Healing the Soul after Religious Abuse , offers a unique perspective of recovery and restoration of the soul after religious abuse. The author argues that religious abuse often stops not only psychological growth, but also inward development. The effect is not simply emotional, because the devastation reaches to the core of the spirit. Often there is no place for a God of love or a love of what once was divine. Through a series of personal interviews with persons from the five major religions, Rauch considers various ways that religion can do harm. The stories told in this book include the road to restoration in the wake of institutional abuse and how inner experience is sometimes confused with religious training; the sacred task of spiritual leadership and how to restore trust when there has been a violation; an exploration of sacrifice and a clarification of the notion of shame; a look at the impact of religious bigotry in the areas of race, sexuality, and tolerance; an overview of sexuality and the place it holds in both celibate and family life; the pernicious issue of clergy sexual abuse and the signs of spiritual trauma in response to such violation; a roadmap for restoration and a challenge to religious institutions; and, lastly, ways to reclaim the sacred and rewire the spirit. Through interviews, research, and personal stories, the author tells a story of recovery of the most delicate kind, offering pathways through the dark night of religious violation to a restoration of the soul and its immense possibilities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0313346704
ISBN-13
9780313346705
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70960138
Product Key Features
Book Title
Healing the Soul after Religious Abuse : the Dark Heaven of Recovery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Abuse / General, Personal Growth / Happiness, Abuse, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Spiritual, Abuse / Child Abuse, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual, Psychology of Religion
Book Series
Religion, Health, and Healing Ser.
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Genre
Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Bl65
Reviews
"This book is, by turns, clinical observation, memoir, essay, and epic. It is universal and deeply personal, general and specific, prose and poetry, Western and Eastern, Catholic and secular, traditional and new-age, clear and confusing, open, pained and relieved, comforting and challenging-and always loving and touching. Thus, it is much like its author, and could not have been written by anyone else. Read it. You may not like all of it, but you will not dismiss it easily or soon forget it." Mike Lew, Author of Victims No Longer and Leaping upon the Mountains., "This book is, by turns, clinical observation, memoir, essay, and epic. It is universal and deeply personal, general and specific, prose and poetry, Western and Eastern, Catholic and secular, traditional and new-age, clear and confusing, open, pained and relieved, comforting and challenging-and always loving and touching. Thus, it is much like its author, and could not have been written by anyone else. Read it. You may not like all of it, but you will not dismiss it easily or soon forget it."- Mike Lew, Author of Victims No Longer and Leaping upon the Mountains., "This is a dark book--suffering is not sunshine--but almost paradoxically, it is crisply written and a page turner."- Huston Smith, Author of The Religions of Man and Why Religion Matters, "This is a dark book--suffering is not sunshine--but almost paradoxically, it is crisply written and a page turner." Huston Smith, Author of The Religions of Man and Why Religion Matters, "In Healing the Soul After Religious Abuse, Mikele Rauch has constructed a tremendous gift to the men, women, and children affected directly or indirectly by religious abuse. The full impact of this groundbreaking, immensely eloquent book has to do not just with the author's intimate and deeply nuanced understanding of religious abuse, but the radiant significance she attaches to religiousness itself. If she persuades her reader that religious abuse can cut into the very foundation of self, it is because she has already persuaded him in one powerful narrative after another, most poignantly her own, that the longing for light, life, truth, and connection we associate with religious impulses lies at the very core of human be-ing--is definitive of who we are. There is a real bodhi-sattva spirit moving through this book." Carol Lee Flinders, author of Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action
Table of Content
Series Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: The Nightmare of Light Chapter 2 Trouble in the House of God: Trauma and the Life Cycle Chapter 3 Hells Prayer Room: When Religion Is the Abuser Chapter 4 Spiritual Leadership and the Trance of Religious Power Chapter 5 The Blood of Angels: Psychological and Physical Abuse in the Name of God Chapter 6 This Is My Body: When Religious Violate in the Name of GodSexual and Ritual Abuse Chapter 7 The Water You Want: Recovery in Four Directions Chapter 8 The Water of Life Resources Glossary Notes Bibliography
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
2008-045544
Dewey Decimal
201/.7622
Dewey Edition
22
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