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Spiritual Abuse

Spiritual abuse is a general term for damaging social dynamics within cults or churches, generally associated with a misuse of trust. The classic work on the subject is David Johnson and Jeff Vanvonderen's 1991 book The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse.

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Uncovering Churches that Abuse People
An 11-point checklist from Ronald Enroth's 'Recovering from Churches That Abuse'
Abusive Churches: How to recognize and deal with Spiritual Abuse · Index
from apologeticsindex.org
Characteristics of Spiritual Abuse
by Ron Henzel of REST ministries
Is your church free of cultic tendencies?
A checklist originally developed by the Spiritual Counterfeits Project.
Spiritual Abuse: Articles · Index
an extensive links page at spiritualabuse.org
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
A partial summary of Johnson and Vanvonderen's book.
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