Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.55.2.8
Religion and Addiction Treatment: Prayer, Work and Conversation as a formof Rehabilitation in the Example of Cenacolo Community
Filip Trbojević
orcid.org/0000-0003-0862-5411
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In recent years the relationship between religion and health has been a subject of interest to various scientific disciplines. Noticing that in the context of contemporary sociocultural processes the phenomenon of religion more and more often goes beyond the rigid institutional framework, and, as such, penetrates into various secular issues and challenges, in this paper we have used the example of Cenacolo Community – a community which helps young people and bases its program on faith – to present the issue of addiction treatment in a religious context and deepen the knowledge about forms of helping addicts that go beyond the rigid framework of biomedicine. Using the method of ethnographic research as well as a semi-structured problem-oriented interview and participant observation, we ascertained the similarities between the rehabilitation programs of Cenacolo Community and the programs of conventional therapeutic communities for addiction treatment, articulated the religious aspect of addiction treatment and determined the importance of the relationship between the latter and work and group conversations – the practices on which the Community bases its rehabilitation program.
Keywords
addiction treatment; Cenacolo Community; religion; therapeutic communities
Hrčak ID:
240734
URI
Publication date:
22.7.2020.
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