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Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality in A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery. Daniell tells the story of a group of women in "Mountain City" who use reading and writing in their search for spiritual growth. Diverse in socioeconomic status, the Mountain City women are, or have been, married to alcoholics. In Al-Anon, they use literacy to practice the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in order to find spiritual solutions to their problems. In addition, Daniell demonstr

Spiritual life. --- Literacy --- Narrative therapy. --- Adult education --- Female friendship --- Women --- Twelve-step programs --- English language --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- Storytelling --- Psychotherapy --- Friendship between women --- Friendship in women --- Women's friendship --- Friendship --- Programs, Twelve-step --- Steps, Twelve (Self-help) --- Twelve steps (Self-help) --- Self-help techniques --- Education --- Rhetoric --- Study and teaching --- Therapeutic use --- Germanic languages

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Rhetoric --- Religious aspects --- Christianity