Writing transformation: Using addiction recovery memoirs toward personal and social change

Exploring the currently popular “recovery memoir” as a contemporary form of confessional spiritual literature, this paper considers how memoirists use their writing as a practice of healing and recovery. For some, the memoir’s narration of spiritual transformation from the ravages of addiction to re...

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Main Author: Mercer, Joyce Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: International Academy of Practical Theology [2019]
In: Reforming practical theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Pages: 69-75
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Addiction / Recovery / Autobiography / Spirituality
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
ZD Psychology
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