Trauma in Religion
Personal Sovereignty

Questionnaire 7

Belonging, Exclusion and Religious Identity

Exploring childhood teachings about religious belonging, group identity, superiority, outsiders and social exclusion.

There are no right or wrong answers.

These questions are concerned with what you remember being presented with, when you first became aware of particular ideas, and how your understanding may have changed.

You may answer Unsure, I don't remember, or Prefer not to answer whenever those responses better describe your experience.

Questionnaire: PS-BE-07 — Version 0.1

For all of the following questions, think only about:

Before your 12th birthday

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Question 1

Did anyone ever tell you that belonging to your religion made you or your group better, more worthy, more moral or closer to the truth than other people?

Your answer

Question 2

Did anyone ever tell you that people of another religion, or people with no religion, were bad, lost, dangerous, untrustworthy or less worthy?

Your answer

Question 3

Were you ever expected to avoid, distrust, exclude or limit friendships or close relationships with people outside the religion?

Your answer

Question 4

Did anyone ever make you feel that being accepted as part of your family, school, church or community depended on being identified with the religion or behaving as a member of it?

Your answer

Question 5

Did you ever see or experience someone being ridiculed, shamed, excluded or treated as less worthy because they belonged to another religion or had no religion?

Your answer
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