Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
ISBN-10
022662479X
ISBN-13
9780226624792
Series
Hunted
Category
Religion
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
2019-09-15
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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.

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