A review by amandakitz
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura E. Anderson

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book is an important work as more people are coming to realize the negative impacts of high control religious groups and cults. My only qualm is that it was primarily written for people like me who were raised in fundamentalist evangelicalism and used the word "religion" to refer to that, alluding to the points raised applying to other groups but rarely providing examples to illustrate that the author wasn't just speaking to and about toxic forms of Christianity. I know that there is a lot of overlap among high-control religious groups and don't think using the broader term was inaccurate; I only wish that there was more evidence provided to support that point.