TYPES OF ABUSE

Deprivation of matters that pertain to a person's spiritual welfare and belief. This can be at a personal level (where a person refuses to allow another to attend church - this is often a partner refusing to allow the other partner or their children to attend church) or it can be at a cultural or political level where local authorities refuse to allow a person the right to practice, openly and freely, their spiritual beliefs. Spiritual abuse is also found in many cults and organisation where a dictatorial person or group, lays down the rules about what members can believe or do or what they must do - for example there are cults that insist that the leaders of the cult must have sexual relations with every woman or man within the cult before they are allowed to mix with others (this is just one example).