Scholarship in theology and religious studies rarely addresses the suicidal ideation and suicide loss that affect many of our lives; unfortunately, this silence reinforces the common identification of religion with suicide stigma. Addressing this void with multidisciplinary perspectives on suicide prevention, ideation, survival, and loss, this volume offers nuanced accounts of both the harm inflicted by faith communities and their potential as sources of healing and hope. The book's wide-ranging and accessibly written essays expand the conversation about suicide and religion, especially through their attention to social injustice and the collective implications of suicidality.

Jessica Coblentz, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana

These multidisciplinary scholars provide faith-based communities with important, sensitive, and destigmatizing information regarding how we think, talk, act, teach, write, and report about suicide, with a special focus on survivors of suicide loss. The authors review theological and psychological issues that will assist in the healing needs of suicide loss survivors as well as identify issues of suicide and suicide loss in marginalized populations (i.e., LGBTQ+, Black Americans, caste system).

John L. McIntosh, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Indiana University South Bend

The collected essays acknowledge the reality of suicide - itself a laudable stance against the instinct for silence around the difficult issue - and address the disturbed world that suicide reveals with interdisciplinary breadth, theological rigor, human compassion, and divine mercy. Each essay acknowledges the complex but no less concrete realities in which suicide occurs, from the particular evils that attend marginalized and minoritized populations to the human universal, and with learning and concern offers alternative perspectives on suicide and consolation to survivors of suicide loss. The book is a welcome contribution that can revitalize the often hushed and rigid discussion on a topic of genuine importance to church and society. The book is heartfully recommended to all the living - in a world full of loss and yearning for hope.

Paul K.-K. Cho, Wesley Theological Seminary