Is Depression a Sin or a Disease? A Critique of Moralizing and Medicalizing Models of Mental Illness
Moralizing accounts of depression include the idea that depression is a sin or the result of sin, and/or that depression is the result of demonic possession that has occurred because of moral or spiritual failure. Some Christian communities, understandably concerned about the debilitating effects th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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Journal of disability & religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 285-311 |
| Further subjects: | B
Church
B folk psychiatry B Christianity B passibility B Suffering |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |