Spirits and Exorcism: On the Semiotics of Healing and Recovery
Focusing on the ambiguous and indeterminate relationship between spirit possession and alcoholic spirits, this article shows how biosemiotics provides a way to understand healing and recovery from addiction. The efficacy of treatment for addiction is a spiritual function of social relations anchored...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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| In: |
Ethos
Year: 2014, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 399-414 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirit Possession
B Ritual Motif B Addiction B Himalayas B Efficacy B biosemiotics |
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| Summary: | Focusing on the ambiguous and indeterminate relationship between spirit possession and alcoholic spirits, this article shows how biosemiotics provides a way to understand healing and recovery from addiction. The efficacy of treatment for addiction is a spiritual function of social relations anchored in symptomatic diagnosis, rather than in the embodiment of belief as an expression of cultural meaning in ritual forms of treatment. As such, this article offers as critical, semiotic counterpoint to interpretations of ritual efficacy that are based on phenomenology and hermeneutics. |
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| ISSN: | 1548-1352 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethos
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/etho.12061 |
