{"id":32097,"date":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/activity\/kefalaio-tis-j-funk-sto-syllogiko-tomo-trauma-and-lived-religion-transcending-the-ordinary\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:00:00","slug":"kefalaio-tis-j-funk-sto-syllogiko-tomo-trauma-and-lived-religion-transcending-the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/activity\/kefalaio-tis-j-funk-sto-syllogiko-tomo-trauma-and-lived-religion-transcending-the-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Julianne Funk\u2019s chapter in the edited volume Trauma and Lived Religion: Transcending the Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><strong>Julianne Funk<\/strong>, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP\u2019s South-East Europe Programme, recently published a chapter in the edited volume Trauma and Lived Religion: Transcending the Ordinary (eds. R.R. Ganzevoort &#038; S. Sremac), with Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>  Dr. Funk\u2019s chapter, co-authored with J.J. Lembke is entitled <strong>\u201cFeeding the Hungry Spirits: A Socially Engaged Buddhist Response to the Distortion of Trauma\u201d<\/strong> (pp. 177-199).<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <em>This contribution seeks to describe trauma\u2019s distortion as a psychological and physiological phenomenon as well as a lens through which to consider a particular experience of trauma and healing: one individual\u2019s visit to the former concentration camp Auschwitz\/Birkenau in a Zen Peacemaker Bearing Witness Retreat. The authors\u2019 understanding of this distortion draws from recent findings that trauma causes a \u201cfundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions\u201d (van der Kolk 2014, 21), thereby distorting one\u2019s relation with oneself but also with society. The chapter brings together two unexpected and unlikely elements, a personal story of traumatic distortion reverberating out from the Holocaust and a unique healing response from socially engaged Buddhism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9783319918716\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":32098,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/32097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=32097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}