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Trauma, Violence, and High-Control Religion

Trauma, Violence, and High-Control Religion

Update: 2025-03-11
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This episode marks a new emphasis for On Becoming. While I have referred to trauma before, here it becomes a lens through which we examine high-control religion (like Evangelicalism). I begin by considering the role of cruelty in Christianity, though a recent article by David French. Next, I turn to Alice Miller's book The Drama of the Gifted Child as a way of thinking about how children are often treated with a lack of respect and thus traumatised. Finally, I turn to James Dobson to work out the ways in which trauma and violence are part of most Evangelical's upbringing.

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Trauma, Violence, and High-Control Religion

Trauma, Violence, and High-Control Religion

Bruce Ellis Benson