Recovery Spirituality

There is growing interest in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and other secular, spiritual, and religious frameworks of long-term addiction recovery. The present paper explores the varieties of spiritual experience within A.A., with particular reference to the growth of a wing of recovery spirituality pr...

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VerfasserInnen: Kurtz, Ernest (VerfasserIn) ; White, William L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI [2015]
In: Religions
Jahr: 2015, Band: 6, Heft: 1, Seiten: 58-81
weitere Schlagwörter:B Spirituality
B facets of spirituality
B Transcendence
B recovery spirituality
B Alcoholics Anonymous
B secular spirituality
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Zusammenfassung:There is growing interest in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and other secular, spiritual, and religious frameworks of long-term addiction recovery. The present paper explores the varieties of spiritual experience within A.A., with particular reference to the growth of a wing of recovery spirituality promoted within A.A. It is suggested that the essence of secular spirituality is reflected in the experience of beyond (horizontal and vertical transcendence) and between (connection and mutuality) and in six facets of spirituality (Release, Gratitude, Humility, Tolerance, Forgiveness, and a Sense of Being-at-home) shared across religious, spiritual, and secular pathways of addiction recovery. The growing varieties of A.A. spirituality (spanning the “Christianizers” and “Seculizers”) reflect A.A.'s adaptation to the larger diversification of religious experience and the growing secularization of spirituality across the cultural contexts within which A.A. is nested.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel6010058