Fundamentalist Religious Childhoods and Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing

Gill Harvey: Fundamentalist Religious Childhoods and Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing

Growing up in a strict fundamentalist religious environment shapes adult mental health and wellbeing in complex ways, balancing early structure and community belonging against rigid all-or-nothing belief systems, authoritarian fear-mongering, and potential religious trauma. 

* Focuses on both the challenges and benefits of a strict religious upbringing rather than simply the former

* Uses important terminology such as religious-OCD, religious scrupulosity, rapture, and afterlife anxiety

* Understand the potential effects of fundamentalist religious experiences in the formative years

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