LAWS 3904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Femicide, Religious Abuse, General Social Survey
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An act of another party involving contact, intended to cause feelings of physical pain, injury or other physical suffering or bodily harm: emotional/psychological. When we combine emotional and physical abuse we trivialize the latter. A form of abuse subjecting another to situations that cause emotional trauma. Often associated with situations involving power imbalances. Child abuse: sexual definition includes forced penetration. The forcing of an undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. Short or not long duration or immediate referred to as sexual: spiritual assault. Form of abuse which occurs when a person in a cult, or religious authority, misleads and maltreats another person in the name of a god or. Church or in the mystery of dressing it up in some spiritual concept. Often refers to an abuser using their religious ranking in taking advantage. All these definitions are important; it helps in being able to measure forms of abuse in of a religious spirituality society.
