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Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
Contributor(s): O'Neill, Kevin Lewis (Author)
ISBN: 022662451X     ISBN-13: 9780226624518
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $80.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Pentecostal & Charismatic
- Religion | Christian Living - Social Issues
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 277.281
LCCN: 2018061412
Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:
"It's not a process," one pastor insisted, "rehabilitation is a miracle." In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years.

Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O'Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release.

Contributor Bio(s): O'Neill, Kevin Lewis: - Kevin Lewis O'Neill is professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His books include City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala and Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala.