Healing in a religious therapeutic community
Collective memory, rites and changing social roles
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14244/contemp.v13i3.1164Abstract
Our goal in this article is to understand healing or recovery, in the treatment of an evangelical Christian therapeutic community. The research work was developed during the post-doctoral internship, initially as an ethnographic study made impossible by the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020-2022). We then adopted the theoretical-methodological perspective of collective memory to (re)visit a personal experience of hospitalization in an evangelical Christian therapeutic community, due to abusive consumption of psychoactive substances, which occurred between August 1987 and June 1988. How as a result, we suggest that healing or recovery
may be a mere reversal of social roles.
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