‘The Moment I Became Born-again the Pain Disappeared’: ThE Healing of Devastating War Memories in Born-again Churches in Mbarara District, Southwest Uganda

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-231

  Tankink, Marian ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

born again Christians; memory; Pentecostal churches; psychological and social healing; social cohesion; trauma; Uganda; war

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FORGIVENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELIGION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SECURITY; SPIRITUAL HEALING; UGANDA; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHRISTIANITY; CULTURE; FAITH HEALING; HUMANS; PAIN; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UGANDA; WAR;

EID: 34250658074     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461507077723     Document Type: Article

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