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Beliefs and expressions of the religious in Alcoholics Anonymous
We have seen through the years first, the fall of a society immersed in the ravages of alcohol and drugs, and then the damages that these substances have caused to disintegrate society and more disastrously the individual, in all aspects of his life, economic, work, intellectual, and more terribly in his spiritual aura, familiar and emotional.
It is from that moment that the creation of the AA program, first with very few members and then as an international movement, emerges as a source of hope and help achieving through its twelve-step program the recovery of thousands of alcoholic patients around the world.
And of this success and its unique structure, and operation as its model of not allowing private or corporate investors; thousands of questions have arisen over the years; such what is the core of its success, the magic formula that leads this group to achieve the sobriety of its members and their reintegration into a society that already had them absolutely marginalized and stigmatized.
This book, "Beliefs and Expressions of the Religious in Alcoholics Anonymous", by the hand of great contemporary and classical thinkers allows us to reflect, investigate, address from various perspectives of philosophical, anthropological, spiritual thought, the most mysterious question of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Is AA a group with quasi-religious or spiritual overtones or should it be considered as a "corporate group with religious overtones"? And it sheds light in an intellectual way to the question of how a group manages under spirituality to lead its members to recovery without submission to a dogmatization of beliefs, maintaining among its members the freedom of belief or non-belief.
Undoubtedly a reading of great intellectual level that walks on uncertain terrains of religion and spirituality and the orthodox rational that could leave great clues in the reader and researcher about how the AA program manages to lead its members towards a recovery not only of drunkenness, but to a spiritual recovery that goes beyond the religious achieving in a certain way to face its members to a reconstruction of the crisis of meaning of the fragmented self and returning to it a strength of faith in a higher power built from the individuality of its own being.
It is from that moment that the creation of the AA program, first with very few members and then as an international movement, emerges as a source of hope and help achieving through its twelve-step program the recovery of thousands of alcoholic patients around the world.
And of this success and its unique structure, and operation as its model of not allowing private or corporate investors; thousands of questions have arisen over the years; such what is the core of its success, the magic formula that leads this group to achieve the sobriety of its members and their reintegration into a society that already had them absolutely marginalized and stigmatized.
This book, "Beliefs and Expressions of the Religious in Alcoholics Anonymous", by the hand of great contemporary and classical thinkers allows us to reflect, investigate, address from various perspectives of philosophical, anthropological, spiritual thought, the most mysterious question of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Is AA a group with quasi-religious or spiritual overtones or should it be considered as a "corporate group with religious overtones"? And it sheds light in an intellectual way to the question of how a group manages under spirituality to lead its members to recovery without submission to a dogmatization of beliefs, maintaining among its members the freedom of belief or non-belief.
Undoubtedly a reading of great intellectual level that walks on uncertain terrains of religion and spirituality and the orthodox rational that could leave great clues in the reader and researcher about how the AA program manages to lead its members towards a recovery not only of drunkenness, but to a spiritual recovery that goes beyond the religious achieving in a certain way to face its members to a reconstruction of the crisis of meaning of the fragmented self and returning to it a strength of faith in a higher power built from the individuality of its own being.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2022
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