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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges |
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Palgrave studies in lived religion and societal challenges.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Negotiating of Self, the Social, and the Sacred in Recovery: A Lived Religion Perspective -- The Structure of the Volume -- References -- 2: Lived Religion, Worship and Conversion: Ethnographic Reflections in an Abstinence-based Christian Therapeutic Community -- Introduction -- Lived Religion and Conversion in Geographic Perspective -- Researching Hebron: An Abstinence-based Christian Therapeutic Community -- Lived Religion, Embodiment and the Spiritual Landscapes of Worship -- Belief, Worship and the Therapeutic -- Conclusion -- References |
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3: "It Was Easier in Prison!" Russian Baptist Rehab as a Therapeutic Community, Monastery, Prison, and Ministry -- Introduction -- The Ministry of Good Samaritan -- Christian Rehabilitation -- Therapeutic Community -- Monastery -- Prison -- Ministry -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4: Substance Abuse, Recovery and Closeness to God: Insights from the Retrospective Interview Technique -- Introduction -- Religiousness, and Spirituality, and Lived Religion -- Conversion -- Recovery -- Conversion and Recovery -- Analytical Approach -- Findings |
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Did not Care about God and Never Felt Close to Him -- "Maybe God is Real but I can Help Myself" -- "I Surrender Everything: I Don't Want My Life Any More, You (God) can Have It" -- "God is Better than Whatever I Had" -- "I Believe in God, and I never Doubt His Existence. But I Wasn't in Anyway Committed to Him for Sure, and I Was Never Completely Sober" -- Discussion -- Implications of Religion/Spirituality in Substance Dependence Recovery -- Neuroscience Evidence for Conversion/Transcendence in Substance Dependence Recovery |
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Clinical Applications for Religion/Spirituality in Substance Dependence Recovery -- Implication for the Clinician's Professional Adaptation to Religious/Spiritual Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Domestic Violence Shelter and Alternation: The Importance of Socialization on the Victim-Survivor's Religion -- Introduction -- Participants -- Shannon -- Ashley -- Lexie -- Roxanne -- Results -- Primary Socialization Leads to Enduring Concepts about Self and Others -- Primary Socialization Leads to Enduring God-Image -- Religion is Lived in a Variety of Ways and for a Variety of Purposes |
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Shelter Could be Considered a Type of a Total Institution -- The Shelter is Not a Source of Significant, Ongoing Relationships -- Personal Religious Habits and Orientations are Not Significantly Changed at/after Shelter -- Conclusions -- References -- 6: Tacit Conversion: A Linguistic Analysis of a Vipassana Meditator's Narrative of Self-Transformation -- Introduction -- Goenka's Vipassana Movement -- Conversion Narrative -- Introducing Elijah and His Narrative Plot -- The Performance of the Narrative -- Self-Acceptance -- The Adoption of the Movement's Rhetoric -- Concluding Notes |
| Summary |
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters. With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence |
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Appendix: Conventions of Transcription |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Conversion.
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Conversion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sremac, Srđan, 1976-
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Jindra, Ines W.
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| ISBN |
9783030406820 |
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3030406822 |
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