Freely Compelled, Compulsively Free: a Critical Pastoral Approach to Addiction

Critical pastoral theology has no doubt come to recognize the significance of social formations in the crisis of addiction as a symptom of suffering. This article suggests that how we understand and describe these social formations matters. It argues that our most common approaches to addiction risk...

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Main Author: Horwedel, Isaac Bernard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. 2022
In: Pastoral psychology
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-78
Further subjects:B Critical Theory
B Addiction
B Neoliberalism
B Recovery
B Marx
B Capitalism
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