Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?

Apostates are individuals raised within religious families, having identified as religious yet, currently disbelieve in the existence of God, or Gods, with a lack of belief in religion, and currently identify as non-religious. Given the strong feelings families can have about the rejection of their...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parekh, Hari
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38930/
_version_ 1848795722781032448
author Parekh, Hari
author_facet Parekh, Hari
author_sort Parekh, Hari
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
collection Online Access
description Apostates are individuals raised within religious families, having identified as religious yet, currently disbelieve in the existence of God, or Gods, with a lack of belief in religion, and currently identify as non-religious. Given the strong feelings families can have about the rejection of their faith, this study sought to examine how abusive this could be for the apostate, expecting that apostates represent hidden population of abuse victims within religious households. 228 persons (102 Male: 119 Female) were recruited from an online survey with the support of Faith to Faithless and were screened using the modified conflict tactics scale to quantify experience of assault, serious assault, psychological abuse and negotiation.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T19:36:37Z
format Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
id nottingham-38930
institution University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-14T19:36:37Z
publishDate 2016
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling nottingham-389302025-02-28T13:37:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38930/ Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims? Parekh, Hari Apostates are individuals raised within religious families, having identified as religious yet, currently disbelieve in the existence of God, or Gods, with a lack of belief in religion, and currently identify as non-religious. Given the strong feelings families can have about the rejection of their faith, this study sought to examine how abusive this could be for the apostate, expecting that apostates represent hidden population of abuse victims within religious households. 228 persons (102 Male: 119 Female) were recruited from an online survey with the support of Faith to Faithless and were screened using the modified conflict tactics scale to quantify experience of assault, serious assault, psychological abuse and negotiation. 2016-12-16 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38930/1/Portfolio..pdf Parekh, Hari (2016) Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims? MSc(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham. apostate apostasy victim abuse hidden population domestic violence
spellingShingle apostate
apostasy
victim
abuse
hidden population
domestic violence
Parekh, Hari
Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title_full Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title_fullStr Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title_full_unstemmed Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title_short Do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
title_sort do apostates represent a hidden population of abuse victims?
topic apostate
apostasy
victim
abuse
hidden population
domestic violence
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38930/