Quaker meetings, 28, 30, 75, 92, 148

reflexivity, 87, 222

Reformation, the, 34, 75, 242

research methods

source of data/material, xiv–xvii

transcription, xv–xvi

Rockefeller, John D., 44–45

Roland H., 18, 43

Rollie H., 43

Saturday Evening Post article on AA,, 58, 82

Seiberling, Henrietta, 35, 40–42

self narrative. See life story

Serenity Prayer, 9, 30, 49, 71–72, 141–142, 151, 238–239

sharing. See also qualifying; identification under Alcoholics Anonymous meetings

AA sharing turn, 7, 9, 11, 30, 58, 87, 92, 100, 129–132, 138

dialogic(al), 11–12, 74, 78, 94, 104, 112–114, 159–161, 189–193, 206, 249

display of gratitude, 34, 116–117, 141, 149–150, 168–171

display of self, 5

evaluative focus on self, 115–118, 163–166, 181, 203, 218, 237, 242

interactive, 144–146

intertextual nature of, 28, 30, 122–125, 144

opening frame, 136, 143–144

origins of, 101–104

Oxford Group, xiii, 25, 27–29, 39–40

Quakers, 75

sharing (continued)

self introductionsSee also qualifying under Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, 146–149

symmetry of interaction, 157–185

witnessing, 118

Shoemaker, Dr. Sam, 18, 24, 35, 59

Silkworth, Dr. William Duncan, 20–21, 31, 39, 47, 57, 60, 70

slogans, 9, 77, 122–128, 143, 167, 205, 218, 241

Smith, Anne, 24, 27, 34–35, 56

Smith, Robert Holbrook. See Dr. Bob

Smith, Sue, 22, 27

Spener, Philipp Jakob, 26

Taylor, Charles, 191, 196, 222, 242, 244

Towns Hospital, 19–21

Twelve Steps, the, 51, 58–59, 68–69, 121, 227–228, 233–235, 252

writing the Twelve Steps, 60–66

Twelve Traditions, the, xvii, 14–15, 42, 50

reflexive nature of, 78–98, 184

writing the Twelve Traditions, 14, 24, 43, 81–89, 95

Washingtonians, the, 30, 85, 95

Williams, Clarence, & T. Henry, 28, 32–33, 35, 39–40

Wilson, Lois, 30–31, 35, 56, 81

Wilson, William Griffith. See Bill W.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 4, 196

Works Publishing, 51, 54, 76

Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, 48