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What is Trauma? As religious institutions, we certainly experienced those that were victims of traumatic events

"William James (1901) in his famous study, Varieties of Religious Experiences, understood conversion to be a kind of healing. The healing, as James

Mad is not necessarily bad. Acute Religious Experiences are always phenomenally mad, but not necessarily pathological.

A Brief History of Conversion Research Ever since William James’ landmark study, A Variety of Religious Experiences (1902), the topic of religious

In his book The Variety of Religious Experiences, William James writes about multiple accounts of religious conversions, most of which occurred in the A crucial difference between the religious testimony and the deconversion narrative is that the religious testimony has an overall optimistic or positive tone. It is a “I once was lost, but now I am found” story. The deconversion narrative has a certain triumphalism to it in an “I escaped captivity” sense, but it tends to lack the “I escaped to some new hope” sense of the testimony. While the testimony tends to dwell on the benefits ...