Addiction Treatment - Comparing Religion and Science in Application

Addiction Treatment is an ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs-religious, faith-based programs and science-based, secular programs

List of 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

Summary

Addiction Treatment is an ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs—religious, faith-based programs and science-based, secular programs

Product details

• Authors: Daniel E. Hood, Hood Daniel E.
• Assisted by: Daniel Hood (Editor), Hood Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032924656
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3292465-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects