Understanding Drug Use and Abuse
Understanding Drug Use and Abuse

Author: Benjamin P. Bowser

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1137402121

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Addressing drug use and abuse as a global phenomenon, this text draws on contemporary and international research findings to examine the causes of drug use in different countries and to explore different policy responses to its prevention and treatment. It is an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and anyone concerned with drug use.

Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies

Author: Adrian Thatcher

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0334063604

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Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.

Prodigals and Pilgrims
Prodigals and Pilgrims

Author: Jay Fliegelman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521317269

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The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.