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Religion, Flesh, and Blood

Autor Pamela Leong
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mai 2015
This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that characterizes this congregation has enabled some freedoms that are otherwise disallowed in traditional congregations. These new freedoms inadvertently have led to certain excesses, including overtly sexual language and behaviors. But this is not to say that the congregation disregards conventional norms altogether, or that therapy is used simply as an excuse for self-indulgence. Rather, in spite of the occasional messiness that may arise, there is something significant and deep about therapeutic religion. For religious organizations serving traumatized and marginalized populations in particular, therapeutic religion may be pivotal in helping to reintegrate the wounded back into the community folds."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739194423
ISBN-10: 0739194429
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 150 x 231 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

Pamela Leong is assistant professor of sociology at Salem State University.

Descriere

This book presents a portrait of a congregation that blends therapy and religion, producing a "therapeutic religion" in which the role and meaning of religion are open to interpretation, religious identities are shaped by life experiences, and healing of the person is underscored. The book also highlights some of the tensions this produces.