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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Main Author: Alter, Joseph S. 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2014
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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