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- Title
REMEMBRANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOW THE BODYSELF RESPONDS TO TRAUMA.
- Authors
Pederson, Ann; Nuetzman, Erin; Gubbels, Jennifer; Hummel, Leonard
- Abstract
How do the experiences of people who undergo extreme suffering and trauma in one generation get passed on to the next generation? And how do these experiences affect religious–spiritual beliefs and practices? Can we help to create resilience in these later generations through these religious–spiritual beliefs? In order to answer these questions, one must remember and understand not only how trauma is embodied and inherited, but also the role that religious beliefs and practices play in facing and overcoming the trauma. People who have experienced trauma can pass on the effects to subsequent generations biologically through epigenetic changes to their DNA, but also through their religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. The ways people remember and recover from trauma involve complex biological, psychosocial, and spiritual processes. We use the sciences of embodied cognition and epigenetics to analyze the heritability of trauma and its spiritual–religious manifestations in the next generations. Having done so, our hope is that we can understand how spiritual and religious practices can be developed to help people who undergo trauma so that they can become resilient and thrive.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL trauma; EPIGENETICS; JESUS Christ; CHRISTIANS; GENETIC code
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2018, Vol 53, Issue 4, p1018
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12474