Spirit and Trauma

Life following an overwhelming event of violence is fundamentally changed. Survivors struggle to reconcile their present experience of life—reconfigured through trauma—with their experience of faith. When individuals and religious communities try to put the events behind them and proclaim the good n...

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Published in:Interpretation
Main Author: Rambo, Shelly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2015
In: Interpretation
Further subjects:B PTSD
B Combat
B Redemption
B Spirit
B Trauma
B Hurricane Katrina
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Summary:Life following an overwhelming event of violence is fundamentally changed. Survivors struggle to reconcile their present experience of life—reconfigured through trauma—with their experience of faith. When individuals and religious communities try to put the events behind them and proclaim the good news before its time, they fail to attend to the ongoing realities of a death that do not go away. This essay explores a theology that witnesses to what remains.
ISSN:2159-340X
Contains:Enthalten in: Interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0020964314552625