discursive practice (continued)

alignment, xv, 4–5, 11, 46, 67–68, 94–95, 115, 118–122, 137–138, 163, 168–169, 172, 176, 180, 193–195, 208–209, 229–230, 234–235, 240, 244, 249, 251

footing, 4–5, 45, 111, 115, 139, 143, 164–166, 170–171, 174, 191–192, 194, 217, 230

orientation, xiv, 33, 76, 95, 147, 152, 191

reauthoring, 109, 118, 120, 144, 188, 195, 208, 213, 224, 238, 252

Dr. Bob (Smith, Robert Holbrook)

Akron group, 29–33

cofounder of AA, 17, 23

meets Bill W., 18–20, 37–38

membership of Oxford Group, 24–25, 27, 41–43, 61

writing the Big Book,, 44–45, 51, 54–55, 82

Dowling, Fr, 59

Ebby T., 18–23, 25, 43, 70, 87

Epistles of St. James, 27

Firestone, Russell, 26

Florence R., 56

Foucault, Michel, 195

Freud, Sigmund, 18

Goffman, Ervin, 29, 56, 137, 139, 148, 192

hitting (rock) bottom, 7, 10–11, 47, 70, 87, 97, 116, 118, 188, 192–194, 196, 208, 213, 218–222, 235

Hock, Ruth, 54

Huxley, Aldous, 15, 21

intertextuality, 121, 143–144, 191, 194–196, 214, 226

James, William, 21, 47, 58, 60, 70, 198

Janus, 3, 78

Jellinek, Dr. Elvin M., 48

Jung, Dr. Carl, 18

Liberty article on AA ‘Alcoholics and God’,, 82

life story, 49, 118, 187, 197–199, 203, 207, 213–218, 224–229

AA life story, 70, 109–111, 118–121, 132, 144, 161, 182, 188, 226–228, 244, 250

Lord’s Prayer, the, 30, 142, 151

Luther, Martin, 75, 102

Lutheran pietism, 26

Mann, Marty, 47–50, 59, 212

Mayflower Hotel, 26, 41

National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (NCEA), 48, 212

narrative knowing/understanding, 125, 193, 218, 230, 250–251

Oxford Group. See also AA history

four absolutes, 26, 31, 39–40, 61–62

house parties, 26

origins of AA, xiii, 17–29

relationship with ‘alcohol squad’, 24–31, 37–45

break with AA, 37–47, 61–63, 71, 74

Protestantism, 34, 89, 101–103

Plain Dealer (article on AA),, 82