But don’t involve strengthening your faith, going back to it, or anything involving continuing to be religious. I can’t find anything that doesn’t have a preaching undertone.
Tia Levings’s recent memoir*, A Well-Trained Wife*, touches on this quite a bit – indirectly throughout the book, then more directly in the last several chapters. She no longer identifies as religious and does not attend church due to her religious trauma, in case that’s helpful.
content warning for abuse – physical, sexual, emotional, financial, and spiritual abuse
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Educated by Tara Westover is a very popular memoir about religious trauma in a survivalist and abusive Morman community and fits your ask
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{{Educated by Tara Westover}} is her memoir about living in an LDS family and her struggles to leave the faith and her family. TW for abuse.
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Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
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This one was just published yesterday but you may be interested in it “Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back” Blake Chastain. I’ve only read the introduction but he himself is not currently religious and the book seems mostly about the reasons why people leave evangelical churches and the history of them.
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A Well Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy is hands down the most amazing book I’ve read this year. It’s written by Tia Leavings. The title pretty much explains things. (She’s also in the Prime video special that talks about the fall of the Duggar family.)
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Tia Levings’s recent memoir*, A Well-Trained Wife*, touches on this quite a bit – indirectly throughout the book, then more directly in the last several chapters. She no longer identifies as religious and does not attend church due to her religious trauma, in case that’s helpful.
content warning for abuse – physical, sexual, emotional, financial, and spiritual abuse
Educated by Tara Westover is a very popular memoir about religious trauma in a survivalist and abusive Morman community and fits your ask
{{Educated by Tara Westover}} is her memoir about living in an LDS family and her struggles to leave the faith and her family. TW for abuse.
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
This one was just published yesterday but you may be interested in it “Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back” Blake Chastain. I’ve only read the introduction but he himself is not currently religious and the book seems mostly about the reasons why people leave evangelical churches and the history of them.
A Well Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy is hands down the most amazing book I’ve read this year. It’s written by Tia Leavings. The title pretty much explains things. (She’s also in the Prime video special that talks about the fall of the Duggar family.)