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‘We Will Revive’: addiction, spiritual warfare, and recovery in Latin America’s cocaine production zone

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  • Pablo Seward Delaporte

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Once a key site in the War on Drugs against cocaine, the Upper Amazon in northeastern Peru has lately seen an increase in addiction to coca paste, a toxic by-product of the cocaine manufacturing process. Unregulated and coercive Pentecostal ministries, founded and administered by recovered pastors, constitute the main form of addiction treatment in the Upper Amazon today. Based on ethnographic research in nine ministries and using the example of the ministry ‘We Will Revive,’ this article suggests that Pentecostal ministries re-articulate addiction as demonic possession. Accordingly, ministries treat addiction through spiritual warfare against the Devil. In so doing, Pentecostal ministries change the locus of the War on Drugs from trade networks to sinful bodies.

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  • Pablo Seward Delaporte, 2018. "‘We Will Revive’: addiction, spiritual warfare, and recovery in Latin America’s cocaine production zone," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 298-313, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:39:y:2018:i:2:p:298-313
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1328275
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