Religious Trauma Resources
Without endorsing anything specific because we are all different and only you and your therapist will know what is helpful to you, here are some starting places of resources for religious trauma (none of which are DID specific):
Books on Religious Trauma written by White authors:
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
Taking Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich & Madeleine Tobias
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists by Marlene Winell
Books on Religious Trauma written by BIPOC authors:
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma by Teresa B. Pasquale
Religious Experience in Trauma: Koreans’ Collective Complex of Inferiority and the Korean Protestant Church by Kwangyu Lee
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D Perry
Books on Religious Trauma written by Queer authors:
Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith by Mihee Kim-Kort
Queer Mormon Theology by Blaire Ostler
Books on Religious Trauma outside of Christianity:
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deobrah Feldman
When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life by Jon Ogden
Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family by Chaya Deitsch
Leaving Buddha: A Tibetan Monk’s Encounter with the Living God by by Tenzin Lahkpa & Eugene Bach
Books on Religious Trauma and Sexual Healing:
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy by Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad about Feeling Good (about Sex) by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Books on Religious Trauma and pursuing non-religion afterwards:
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman
Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism by Philip Kitcher
PODCASTS ABOUT Intersection of Queerness and RELIGIOUS TRAUMA
Jewish:
Kosher Queers
The Queer Jew
Muslim:
Queer Muslim Stories
The Queer Arabs
Hindu:
Queer Kahani
Queering Desi
Catholic:
Queer Catholic Talk
Queer Theology
Evangelical:
How Gay Thou Art
The New Evangelicals Podcast
LDS:
Called to Queer
Questions from the Closet
General/Other:
Queer Religion Podcast
Queer Christianity
Queerology: A Podcast on Belief and Being
That's What She Said
Living Out Podcast
Our Loud: GLBT Stories of Faith
For LGBT help:
www.LGBTHotline.org
www.TheTrevorProject.org
