Title
Synergism between Catholicism and Indigenous Spirituality within the Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program of Takiwasi, a Therapeutic Community in the Peruvian High-Amazon
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract
The association between spirituality and medicine is unfolding as a research theme that may have increasing practical implications in healthcare systems. Both spiritual and scientific dimensions are present within the treatment protocol for addiction applied at the Takiwasi Center, a pioneer therapeutic community that combines western approaches, including psychotherapy, biomedicine, and Catholic practices, with traditional Amazonian medicine. Through a series of open-ended and semi-structured interviews conducted on nine workers of the center during fieldwork research and comparison with the information obtained from literature review, the present article aims at testing the existence of an effective synergy between Catholic religiosity and indigenous-mestizo spirituality within the therapeutic process performed at the Takiwasi Center and puts in evidence some stimulating and problematic issues that arise from this synergy.
Start page
432
End page
448
Volume
49
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Estudios religiosos Toxicología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85078148775
Source
Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses
ISSN of the container
00084298
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