This book focuses on the power of the 'ordinary', 'everydayness' and 'embodiment' as keys to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. It critically investigates traumatic experiences from a perspective of lived religion, and therefore, examines how trauma is articulated and lived in the foreground of people's concrete, material actualities.

Trauma and Lived Religion seeks to demonstrate the vital relevance between the concept of lived religion and the study of trauma, and the reciprocal relationship between the two. A central question in this volume therefore focuses on the key dimensions of body, language, memory, testimony, and ritual. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, psychology, and religious studies with a focus on lived religion and trauma studies, across various religions and cultural contexts.

Analyses what people actually do, think, and feel in their everyday societal contexts to develop a more nuanced insight into the relationship between religion and trauma Adopts the general framework of everyday lived religion as the ethnographic and hermeneutical background for understanding the performative dimensions of 'religion-in-action' Critically correlates the experience of trauma with lived religious realities, symbols, texts, religious stories, contemplative practices and transcendental material/aesthetic meaning-making

Autorentext

R. Ruard Ganzevoort is Dean and Professor of practical theology at Vrije Universiteit and founding co-director of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion

Srdjan Sremac lectures at the Faculty of Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-director of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion.

Inhalt

Trauma and Lived Religion: Embodiment and Emplotment, Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort.- Part I. Body.- Torture and Lived Religion: Practices of Resistance, Kathryn House.- Disgust, Shame, and Trauma: The Visceral and Visual Impact of Touch, Stephanie N. Arel.- Part II. Meaning.- Significance of the Visceral in Lived Religion Studies of Trauma, Michelle A. Walsh.- Traumics: The Church and Trauma in Comic Book Format, Maike Schult.- Part III. Relationship.- The Function of Religion in the Context of Re-Experiencing Trauma: Analyzing a Case Study with the Concepts of Transformational and Transitional Object, Hanneke Schaap-Jonker.- Trauma in Relationship Healing by Religion: Restoring Dignity and Meaning after Traumatic Experiences, Mariéle Wulf.- Part IV. Testimony.- Lived Religion and the Traumatic Impact of Sexual Abuse: The Sodalicio Case in Peru, Rocio Figueroa Alvear and David Tombs.- Feeding the Hungry Spirits: A Socially Engaged Buddhist Response to the Distortion of Trauma, Jürgen Jian Lembke and Julianne Funk. - Part V. Ritual.- Remembering for Healing: Liturgical Communities of Reconciliation Provide Space for Trauma, Armand Léon van Ommen.- Victimization via Ritualization: Christian Communion and Sexual Abuse, Hilary Jerome Scarsella.