RT Article
T1 Spirits and Exorcism: On the Semiotics of Healing and Recovery
JF Ethos
VO 42
IS 4
SP 399
OP 414
A1 Alter, Joseph S. 1958-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1963084713
AB 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.
K1 Ritual : Motiv
K1 Himalayas
K1 Efficacy
K1 biosemiotics
K1 Addiction
K1 Spirit Possession
DO 10.1111/etho.12061