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The Twelve Steps |
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Drafting and Secularising the Twelve Steps |
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The Steps: Process and Metaphor |
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The Stories |
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Acceptance Is the Answer |
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AA and Religious Discourse |
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AA Daily Reflections |
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Part II: Fellowship and Sharing |
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Chapter 5: Writing the Twelve Traditions |
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AA as a Social Movement |
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The Reflexivity of AA’s Twelve Traditions |
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Authority and Decentralisation |
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Singleness of Purpose |
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Self-Limitations and Institutional Constraints |
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AA Membership |
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Estimates of AA Groups and Members |
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AA Groups |
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Chapter 6: Sharing and the AA Story |
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The Origins of Sharing |
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Witnessing and Confessing |
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Identifying and Qualifying |
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An AA Story Examined |
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Evaluative Focus on Self |
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Sharing as Witnessing |
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AA Slogans |
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Chapter 7: The AA Meeting |
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The Meeting Frame and Purpose |
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The AA Programme as a ‘Room’ |
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Types of Meetings |