title: Religion and addiction.
abstract: Religion with its rituals can become an object of addiction, especially when a child while growing up experiences neglect and abuse. It is also very common that such individuals transfer their feelings of anger, rage and sometimes even true hatred to God. Then God becomes the substitute for their displaced vengeance (upon those who abused them as children).
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. christian.gostecnik@guest.arnes.si
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gostečnik
authors.forename: Mateja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cvetek
authors.forename: Saša
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poljak
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Repič
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cvetek
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D006801:Humans; D012067:Religion; D012742:Sex Offenses; D029181:Spirituality; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States