Diversity in Unity: Studies of Alcoholics Anonymous in Eight Societies, ed.
Eisenbach-Stangl I and Rosenqvist P, NAD Publication, No. 33, 1998
“Preface
This
book is a companion volume to "Alcoholics Anonymous as a
Mutual-Help Movement. A Study in Eight Societies" which was
written by Klaus Mäkelä and 13 others (1996). Both are outcomes of
The International Collaborative Study on Alcoholics Anonymous — the
ICSAA project.
Mäkelä
et al. (1996) offers an overview and an analysis of Alcoholics
Anonymous as an international mutual-aid movement.
The
perspective in this book is targeted at the diversities — the
unique cultural and social characteristics of the AA phenomenon in
the eight societies studied in the project. We are interested in
describing how Alcoholics Anonymous came about to exist and how it
appears in the particular settings of Austria, Finland, Iceland,
Poland, Mexico, California (Marin County), Sweden and Switzerland.
The case studies are preceded by an introductory chapter in which we
compare these movements and their histories.
We
have aimed at a book that is readable also to those not familiar with the
AA movement. However, there might be terms in the book which may not
automatically be understood by the those not familiar with the AA movement.
For detailed explanations of the AA vocabulary as well as for central
concepts we refer to the subject index of Mäkelä et al. 1996. We would
also like to point out that, unless
otherwise stated, the data for the individual
articles are presented in appendices B and C of Mäkelä et al. 1996.”
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