Full Description
Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide is a collection of essays from survivors, scholars, activists, spiritual leaders, and social justice practitioners that offers numerous intersectional and culturally competent options for women, men, and non-binary conforming adults to create their own safe healing conditions and establish pathways for recovery. These chapters provide a wide range of survival stories that raise awareness of the issues involved in healing after sexual assault and also provide inspiration for reforming negative societal issues and patterns. In a classroom setting, these chapters deliver both the culturally grounded knowledge and the skillsets necessary for recovery.
This is a vital guide for students and practitioners in counseling, social work, theology, and gender studies.
Contents
1. A Sacred Trust: The Spiritual Community's Duty 2. Empowering Prayer: Liberating Liturgy as a Tool for Healing 3. Clergy Sexual Abuse and Moral Injury: The Impact on Students 4. LGBTQIA+ Healing with God's Nonlinear Nonbinary Love 5. Somatic Spirituality for Those Traumatized by Sexual Objectification 6. Deconstruction and Reclamation: A Black Woman's Healing Journey 7. A Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience 8. Latinas: Their Trauma-Releasing Ancestral Traditions and Rituals 9. Healing with Maa: A Shakti Bhaktic Approach to Healing 10. Nature as Muse: Spiritual Healing Through Nature, Art, and Dreams 11. Woman God, Woman Christ: The Healing Power of Divine Intimacy 12. Reclaiming the Divine on the Road to Recovery
