Stepping Onto an Egg: Former Child Soldiers’ Posttraumatic Resilience and Spirit Possession in Uganda
Using a biographical-reconstructive approach, we examine the interplay between the symbolic representation of spirit possession and healing forms of ritual purification in the context of the war-related trauma of former Lord’s Resistance Army child soldiers in Uganda. We illustrate how these former...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2024
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 3, Pages: 345-365 |
Further subjects: | B
Lived Religion
B War-related trauma B Spirit Possession B Northern Uganda B Acholi B Child soldier B Medical Ethics |
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