Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion

by Jennifer L. Manlowe

Book Overview

How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect?
The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814755291
• ISBN13: 9780814755297
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"