Abstract

ALGRANTI, Joaquín  and  MOSQUEIRA, Mariela. Sociogenesis of evangelical devices for the “rehabilitation” of drug users in Argentina. Salud colect. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.2, pp.305-322. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2018.1521.

In order to reconstruct the origin and development of neo-Pentecostal devices for the treatment of addictions in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the article analytically puts into historical context the “therapeutic spiritualization” of addictive behavior undertaken by evangelical agents since the 1970s and explores the way in which the State and religious groups converge in the Recover Inclusion Program. Based on qualitative methodology and a sociological approach and carried out in 2015 and 2016, the study includes fourteen interviews with teachers, leaders and former users of the program, twelve interviews with state officials, participant observation in training courses and a corpus made up of documents related to both institutions. The emergent processes of political and religious institutionalization were analyzed according to three dimensions: a) charisma and its opposite, bureaucracy, b) the dynamic role of the second lines of leadership and c) the networked organization structures. It is concluded that points of convergence and analogies exist in the dynamics of evangelical and public institutionalization in addiction treatment.

Keywords : Religion; Addictive Behaviors; Treatments; Argentina.

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