When Religion Gets Sick

Preface to the Online Edition

The Wayne E. Oates Institute is delighted to publish an Online Edition of this classic work by Wayne E. Oates as part of our Fall 2002 Symposium celebration of the book.

When Religion Gets Sick was originally published by Westminster Press in 1970. While the content of this book remains quite relevant today, the language reflects the biases common to the publishing industry in the 1960s and early 1970s. We also acknowledge that there have been numerous developments in the care of mental health since its original publication.

This specific edition has been designed for ease of reading online with the text formatted to a comfortable column width and the web pages containing only a portion of each chapter. Each web page in this edition contains links to the next and previous pages as well as to the book's Table of Contents.

For those interested in printing a copy of the book to paper, we highly recommend the E-book edition. This is published in the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (pdf), which enables printing a copy of the entire book with indexed pages. The E-book edition is available through email or on CD-ROM. For more information go to: www.oates.org/bookstore/wrgs-bookinfo.html on the World Wide Web or call 502.459.2370.

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