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(AUS) Religious Trauma Fieldnotes - Elise Heerde 

(AUS) The Post Church Files- Sam Sellers 

(AUS) Substack - Jaime Simpson 

(AUS) Substack - ‘The Sentimental Non-Believer’ - Jane Kennedy

Cashwell, S. and Swindle, P. (2018). When religion hurts: Supervising cases of religious abuse.

Arel, S. (2016). Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation

Peteet, J & Lu, F (2022) Religion and Spirituality in the DSM and ICD Spirituality and psychiatry. Cambridge University Press

Ellis, H. M., et al (2022). Religious/spiritual abuse and trauma: A systematic review of the empirical literature. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 9(4), 213

(AUS) Simpson, Jaime (2024) "Broken, Shattered and Spiritually Battered" - Groomed: Pastors who Prey on Adult Congregation Members #ChurchToo.”

Panchuk, M. (2020). Distorting Concepts, Obscured Experiences: Hermeneutical Injustice in Religious Trauma and Spiritual Violence. Hypatia 35: 607–25Harrison, 

(NZ) Anna Marie (2025) “Light Shining in the Darkness: A Hermeneutic Literature Review of Religious Trauma”

Cait West's Substack -My Blue Peninsula

Tia Levings' Substack -The Anti-Fundementalist

Feliciano, S. E. (2023). An Application of the Coercive Control Framework to Cults.CUNY Academic Works.

Hadding et al. (2023). Being in-between: Exploring former cult members' experiences of an acculturation process using the Cultural Formulation Interview (DSM-5).Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Sydney Morning Herald / The Age "When Elise finally reported her abuser to Hillsong, she was threatened and told to 'forgive him'"

The Guardian "Australia's cults crisis: why more people are falling prey to insidious high-control groups"

Melbourne Anglican "Religious freedom concerns raised at cult inquiry"

Victorian Parliament: Public Hearing Transcript - Elise Heerde

(AUS) Smart Mouth For A Girl - Laura McConnell Conti

Jenkinson, G., & Charnock, C. (2023). Walking free from the trauma of coercive, cultic and spiritual abuse: a workbook for recovery and growth.

ICSA Academic Journal - International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation

International Cult Studies Association - Research Library

(AUS) The Shape of Religious Harm - Joel Hollier

(AUS) Clare Heath-McIvor - Substack ‘Exvangelical Explainers’ 

Downie, A. (2022). Christian Shame and Religious Trauma. Religions, 13(10), 925. 

Jenai Auman's Substack - Othered

Greene, B. (2013). The use and abuse of religious beliefs in dividing and conquering between socially marginalised groups: The same-sex marriage debate. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 

(AUS) Jones, T. Power, Y, Jones T. (2022) Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 305. 

(AUS) Hollier, J., Clifton, S., & Smith‐Merry, J. (2022). Mechanisms of religious trauma amongst queer people in Australia’s evangelical churches. Clinical Social Work Journal.