基本説明
This ethnographic comparison of secular and religious residential drug treatments shows that similarities outweigh differences and other treatment mythologies are challenged.
Full Description
This ethnography continues the "thick description" of faith-based and science-based drug programs begun in Addiction Treatment. Using extensive interviews and his own participation in daily rounds of treatment, Hood provides a vivid comparison of resident experience at each type of institution.
Redemption and Recovery tells the stories of two houses in the Bronx, NY that serve people with drug problems: "Redemption House" and "Recovery House." These stories include the direct accounts of residents' "druggin'" lives before treatment and their search for normalcy after recovery or redemption. Other chapters dissect the religion of science-based treatment and compare success rates, religious vs. secular.
Addiction Treatment had detailed a similar process of personal conversion central to both treatments. This sequel uses the "contextualized demographics" of residents to uncover profound parallels between the two "unique" programs and debunk their shared ideology of abstinence.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Resident Demographics: The Men of Redemption and Recovery, 2. Resident Accounts: Rationales for Treatment and Training, 3. Religion at Recovery House: Nihilation and Orthodoxy, 4. Reentering the World: Beyond Recovery and Redemption, 5. Success and Failure at Redemption and Recovery, 6. Conclusion to Redemption and Recovery, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index, Resident and Staff Index
