Drogadiction and Religious Space: a Mission called “Christland”
Subjectivity; Religion; drugs; Recovery models
With the spread of drug addiction in the country, there are some actions proposed by institutions to manage drug user recovery. The State is proposing coping strategies guided in soft actions, where the focus is to minimize the problem, if not, it uses repressive coping systems. However, arise in the field of religion, by some Christian churches, recovery models to drug users by religious means. This paper aims to identify which is the relational role and significance that religion plays in the drug user recovery process, through field study in Missão Batista Cristolândia in Recife / PE, aiming to systematize and discuss, at the light of the theoretical framework, the model of treatment proposed by the Missão Batista Cristolândia, analyzing the relationship between the user recovery with the religious group in which it participates, and accompanying the recovery process, to discuss the interference of the sacred in the recovery process. The work is divided into two parts, the first, there is the discussion of public policy and of what is being done to the addict in recovery and their family. It presents also the religious group studied, the Baptists and the Missão Batista Cristolândia project. In the second part, there is the presentation of the research and the collected data field as the theoretical discussion of the subject desubjectivation drug user. For this purpose it will be used phenomenology to study the subjective user relationship in recovery with his spiritual vision of recovery and its relationship with the existing social world within and outside of the institution. The methodology will be used to "cognitive partnership", which is interviews with members of the institution, an open exchange of thoughts. The results showed that in the same project studied, in each of its two phases, religion takes on a different significance. Finally, it is found that the desubjectivation brought about by chemical dependency has similarities with a desubjectivation brought about by a "religious dependency".