Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory January 1, 2002
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Druen - Book Profile: Sacred Pain - JCRT 3.3

Book Profile: Sacred Pain

a review of Ariel Glucklich,'Sacred Pain. Oxford University Press, 2001.'278pp. $21.00. ISBN: 0195132548

Perri Druen
York College of Pennsylvania

Pain can be "medicine, a test, a rite of passage, or an alchemical agent of inner transformation" (210) and therefore sought with great passion.

Perri Druen is Associate Professor of Psychology at York College of Pennsylvania, having obtained her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Personality from the University of Louisville. She has published several articles and made numerous presentations of her work on identity development, coping, and close relationships.

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