Religions that practice shunning

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3. I understand there are Amish believers who practice shunning.

Quite a few books have been written about it, mostly Christian fiction, I think. Raised Baptist, I was once a member of a church which was affiliated with the Conservative Baptist Association. In the area I lived, several Baptist churches split with CBA and required their members to have nothing to do with anyone, family members included, who remained in association churches. The ones who split were what my Calvinist grandpa liked to call "ten-in-a-bed-Baptists"--so narrow they could fit ten in a bed. Grandpa's little joke, I guess. It was a sad and confusing situation as I saw it, and eventually led to my own "disassociation" from Christianity altogether. I now call myself a lapsed Baptist, (getting close to atheism) which in many ways has been quite spiritually liberating, but never in all my Baptist years would I have engaged in "shunning" other Christians whose beliefs I did not entirely embrace. Had some family members who could have shunned me but didn't. I've appreciated that. They used to talk about reunions in heaven, which doctrine I no longer accept, but who knows? That just might happen, though I'm guessing there will be no shunning involved amongst the departed saints.

Thanks for the thought-provoking post. And blessings!