Now through June 26, you can share your domestic violence experience through our Mental Health and Substance Use Coercion Survey. Wojciech Kujawski was graduated from Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland) and prepared his Ph.D. Thesis under the supervision of Professor Anna Narebska (NCU). It also has many psychological and emotional elements that cause a great deal of harm and distress.. Flannery S. (2021). Abstract: When we live in a system that is fundamentally abusive of Earths systems and marginalized peoples, how do ecocentric religions and spiritual communities acknowledge and counter these abuses? If you are experiencing spiritual abuse, it can help to create a safety plan that might include: The Hotline 30. Other people my age really care about this stuff. Listening to the presenters of the 2019 EndItNow conference, I gained an understanding of what the term spiritual abuse means. Abuse is never the fault of the victim. What is Spiritual Abuse? | The National Domestic Violence Hotline "Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities" Conference For the purposes of this conference, we define alternative spiritualities broadly in keeping with the Program for the Evolution of Spiritualitys mission to support the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions. She said: I was aware of growing work and cases in other faith traditions and related contexts, nationally and internationally, along with the need to bring together people with different lenses on the topic to build a deeper awareness and mutual understanding. Contact Us: info@spiritualabuseresources.com | 1-786-509-9746. Abstract: From the perspective of a former member, this paper employs autoethnography to explore the lived and felt experience of growing up in the Church of Scientology in 1990s Toronto. They are learning to teach to spiritually serve people from all levels of society versus being limited to their traditional roles of serving their immediate family members. Issues Pertaining to the UPCI - Spiritual Abuse Spiritual Abuse Resources - Spiritual Abuse Conference Exempted from federal income tax under the provisions of Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Those children have not been challenged to decide what they believe by giving them information and allowing them to explore, question, and think original thoughts about that information. Used scripture or beliefs to humiliate or embarrass you, Coerced you into giving money or other resources that you didnt want to give, Forced you to be intimate or have sex that you didnt want, Made you feel pressured or obligated to do things against your will, Shame, make fun of, or ridicule your religious beliefs or practices, Prevent you from practicing your religion in the way you would like, Use your beliefs to manipulate or bully you, Demand that your children be raised with/without a certain religion, Use religious texts or beliefs to justify other kinds of abuse (physical, sexual, financial, etc. Empowerment and Abuse: Gender and Sexuality in Two Syncretistic NRMs, Empowerment and agency among Llave Marianas practitioners: an ethnographic approach to an Argentinian spiritual movement, Empowerment and Disempowerment in Moral Re-Armament, From Lion to Lamb: The Spiritual Humiliation of Shaker Richard McNemar, From the Cult Watchers to the Anti-Cult Wars: Tracing the Path to Rich and Rigorous Scientology Research, Genderspecific Manipulation (Gaslighting) through Non-violent Communication, Spirituality and Biologistic Concepts of Mother- and Fatherhood, God Came to Party: Psychedelic Spirituality at Burning Man.