Trauma and Traumatization in Individual and Collective Dimensions: Insights from Biblical Studies and Beyond

Trauma and Traumatization in Individual and Collective Dimensions: Insights from Biblical Studies and Beyond
ISBN-10
3647536164
ISBN-13
9783647536163
Category
Religion
Pages
317
Language
English
Published
2014-10-01
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Authors
Eve-Marie Becker, Jan Dochhorn

Description

The contributors of this volume demonstrate how a highly developed expertise in interpreting Biblical and cognate literature is a substantial part of the overall discourse on the historical, literary, social, political, and religious dimensions of trauma in past and present. This idea is based on the assumption that trauma is not only a modern concept which derives from 20th century psychiatry: It is an ancient phenomenon already which predates modern discourses. Trauma studies will thus profit from how Theology - specifically Biblical exegesis - and the Humanities deal with trauma in terms of religion, history, sociology, and politics.

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