Addiction Treatment: Comparing Religion and Science in Application
Addiction Treatment is ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs-religious, faith-based programs and science-based, secular programs. Through extensive participatory observations, intimate life history interviews, and informal conversations with residents and st...
| Summary: | Addiction Treatment is ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs-religious, faith-based programs and science-based, secular programs. Through extensive participatory observations, intimate life history interviews, and informal conversations with residents and staff, Hood shows how both programs use the same basic techniques of ideological persuasion, methods of social control, and the same proposed zero tolerance, abstinent lifestyle as they endeavor to transform clients from addicts to citizens or from sinners to disciples Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Redemption and Recovery as Addiction Treatment -- 1. Two Houses: People, Places, and Programs -- 2. Parallels in Redemption and Recovery: A Prima Facie Case -- 3. Redemption House: The Social Construction of a Calling -- 4. Recovery House: The Social Construction of Pathology -- 5. Ritual, Miracle, and Myth: Reinforcing Faith in Redemption and Recovery -- 6. Recovery and Redemption: Conclusions, Previews, and Alternatives -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 1412814634 |