Emotional How Religious Shunning Ruins Lives by Psychology Today | Article by Fern Schumer Chapman

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A form of institutionalized estrangement, shunning hurts health of the excluded.

How Religious Shunning Ruins Lives

Religious shunning—an institutionalized form of estrangement—is a social death penalty that results in helplessness, depression, low self-esteem, and suicidal ideation.

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