1st Edition
Addiction Treatment Comparing Religion and Science in Application
By Daniel E. Hood
Copyright 2011
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
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Addiction Treatment is an ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs—religious, faith-based programs and science-based, secular programs. Although these programs have originated from significantly different ideological bases, in examining the day-to-day operations of each, Daniel E. Hood concludes that they are far more alike than they are different.... Read more
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
Biography
Daniel Hood
