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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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