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VIOLENCE< TRAUMA, RESILIENCE
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For further reading:
1) Here is a little blog I did related to this theme that more fully fleshes out
some of my views: Andrea Smith, “Decolonizing Trauma,” Faith in Ac-
tion (blog), Sojourners, September 19, 2016,
https://sojo.net/articles/faith-action/decolonizing-trauma.
2) Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled
Times (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015). It speaks to the
need for Christians to be able to witness pain without expecting simple
solutions.
3) Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of
Violence (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1992). This might
not be an obvious book for Christians. But I found it very helpful in
terms of its orientation toward survivors that really respects their agency
and allows individuals to determine their healing journeys from where
they are, rather than where people imagine they should be.
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