RT Article
T1 Reconstructing Sikh Spirituality in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction
JF Religions
VO 6
IS 1
SP 122
OP 138
A1 Morjaria-Keval, Asesha
A1 Keval, Harshad
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1586045857
AB This paper situates Sikh identity, spirituality, and recovery from alcohol addiction within a nexus of complex social, psychological, and cultural factors. The way in which affected people in Sikh communities in Britain are able to locate and utilize unofficial recovery trajectories, often successfully alleviating suffering, presents both academic research and service provision with potential puzzles. While Sikh communities have been long settled in the UK, there is still a dearth of extensive, multi-method, and analytically rich research investigating the role of spirituality and Sikh identity. We present existing models of recovery process and locate them against an individual psychological and sociological backdrop, so that through the use of spirituality, recovery along this route is interpreted as having both otherworldly as well as materially grounded formations. It is this duality, we argue, that is prominent socially, culturally, and psychologically as important in the recovery from addiction. The multi-factorial nature of this mechanism of change raises important questions for not only addiction recovery, but also notions of continuity and change in Sikh identity. We aim to contribute to this growing body of work in order to re-situate the role of spirituality and identity in alcohol addiction recovery.
K1 Sikh identity
K1 alcohol addiction
K1 Recovery
K1 Religion
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.3390/rel6010122