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This cross-sectional study investigated psychological and religious/spiritual (R/S) outcomes following the 2015 South Carolina flood, with a focus on examining the roles of perceived social and religious support in predicting postdisaster outcomes. These findings suggest enhancing disaster survivors’ perceived social support may help protect them a...
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... Following extensive floods, survivors that perceived the spiritual support received as negative (e.g. felt judged by their spiritual community) reported greater spiritual struggle (Davis et al., 2016). In a recent review of the literature on psychology of religion/spirituality and disasters, it was also found that religious minorities may struggle more after a disaster because they see members of the religious majority in their community providing greater assistance to other majority believers . ...
Religious and spiritual experience unfolds in the ever-changing milieu of culture, institution, social environment and physical place. But what happens when mass tragedy strikes? How might congregants be uniquely impacted when a shooting desecrates their synagogue, mosque, temple or church? Or when a hurricane obliterates their home, which is imbued with sacred significance for them? What role might local faith communities play in facilitating healing and resilience? This chapter explores the embodied experience of faith in the context of mass trauma and disaster, drawing on attachment, object relations, affective neuroscience and ecological systems theories. Specifically, we propose the multidimensional framework of embodied spirituality to capture the dynamic interplay of cognitive, affective and social processes in experiencing and restoring a sense of the sacred in the aftermath of mass tragedy and loss.
