Sin and Addiction: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Soul of Christian Sin-Talk

McDonough, William

doi:10.1353/sce.2012.0010

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

2012

DOI: 10.1353/sce.2012.0010

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Sin and Addiction: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Soul of Christian Sin-Talk

William McDonough¹

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“…Very few such studies appear in the scholarly journals of theology and religion (Sørensen et al 2015;Sremac and Ganzevoort 2013;Stewart 2004). Though not conducting empirical studies, some theologians have contributed insights about the spiritual and religious characteristics of recovery (Blevins 2009;Clinebell 1998;Cook 2006;Doehring 2006;Dunnington 2011;Kime 2015a;Lund 2016;McDonough 2012;Mercadante 1996Mercadante , 1998Mercadante , 2009Mercadante , 2010Nelson 2004;Rohr 2011). Nevertheless, the gap in the literature is significant.…”

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Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Spiritual Characteristics of Recovery Experiences in the Context of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Kime

2018

Pastoral Psychol

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Spirituality persists as a mechanism of behavior change for addiction recovery. The aim of this project was to carefully attend to how those in recovery construct meaning of their experience of addiction, regardless of the addiction treatment modality or ideological framework. Participant accounts reflected the increased public interest in and research funding based on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA). The qualitative study used interpretive phenomenological analysis to investigate the experiences of six adults (age range from 24 to 72) with at least three years of sustained recovery from substance use disorders. In-depth key informant interviews tracked their construction of their experiences and their understanding of addiction. Participants who entered recovery after 2010 sought to integrate BDMA-related constructs into their understanding of addiction and recovery. Addiction recovery narratives featuring BDMA-related constructs integrated neuroscience-related ideas with spirituality-related constructs rather than completely replacing the latter. Notable innovations and paradoxical tensions were found within participant accounts. Such features echo the insights on secularity of Harvard philosopher Charles Taylor, particularly his notion of the Bbuffered self,^which offers a theoretical framework for understanding these shifts in meaningmaking. For persons entering recovery in the twenty-first century, the brain disease model of addiction carries more explanatory authority than it does for previous generations, despite the lack of agreement across addiction-related neuroscientific findings. As a model, it engenders more mechanistic, agential, brain-centered (Bbuffered^) senses of self, ostensibly making it less compatible with spiritual understandings of addiction than other medical models of addiction. However, this study's findings indicate that those in recovery are likely to devise complex narratives of the etiology of addiction that combine elements from various models.

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Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Spiritual Characteristics of Recovery Experiences in the Context of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

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2018

Pastoral Psychol

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Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret'

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2021

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This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret) (1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republican discourses compete. Using Paul Ricœur’s theory on Christianity’s original sin, this article compares Mouret’s sickness with physical evil and illustrates how Zola redeploys the traditional religious symbols of the heart, the blood, and the Word to the secular realm. It will show that original sin is a Christian myth inscribed on the body, and that Zola’s reformulation of a core religious doctrine and its supporting framework can and must be dismantled for the fledgling secular Third Republic. The article shows an attempt by Zola to forge a republican self, and thereby offers a new perspective on the nature of the Zolian body which merits further study under the field of Medical Humanities. Through the construction of the religious body, the article also contributes to wider critical discussion on mythology in Zola’s work.

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Sin and Addiction: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Soul of Christian Sin-Talk

Cited by 2 publications

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Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Spiritual Characteristics of Recovery Experiences in the Context of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Spiritual Characteristics of Recovery Experiences in the Context of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret'

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