RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Barbara Myerhoff, Mikveh, Lawrence Leshan

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2WW3
• Professor: Hisako Omori

Document Summary

Rhetoric of transformation will be tested on the exam! Aa is one of the important remedies known as succesfful to treat alcoholics. The first step is one of the biggest steps in aa. Step 2 also seems to be a huge step. Through these stages, you set yourself up for empowerment. Step three might not always be god, but could just be a higher power. Typical metaphor used in church is like driving a car. You are in control but you let someone come into the passenger seat (this is the higher power) and you allow them to drive your car. We encounter some of these in frank"s book. We choose when we want to be ill. We choose what type of illness we have. Simonton: apparently helped hundreds of patients, tells you about self awareness technique and has scientific basis for the will to live. In this book, simonton profiles the typical cancer personality .