Circuitous journeys

Circuitous journeys: modern spiritual autobiography

by Leigh, David J.

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"Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders, thinkers, and activists from a variety of religious and cultural traditions." "Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine's Confessions, but with an emphasis on distinctively modern and post modern transformations of the self-writing genre."--Jacket

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  • Full title :Circuitous journeys : modern spiritual autobiography / by David J. Leigh.

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"Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders, thinkers, and activists from a variety of religious and cultural traditions." "Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine's Confessions, but with an emphasis on distinctively modern and post modern transformations of the self-writing genre."--Jacket

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2000.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 259 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:058541680X, 9780585416809, 9780823246724, 0823246728, 1282698575, 9781282698574, 9786612698576, 6612698578, 0823237451, 9780823237456, 082321995X, 9780823219957
  • DOI:10.1515/9780823237456
  • oclc:ocm50649412
  • LC Classification:BL71.5
  • Dewey Decimal:291.4/092/2

Table of Contents

Thomas Merton's The seven storey mountain -- Dorothy Day's The long loneliness -- The psychology of conversion in G.K. Chesteron and C.S. Lewis -- The dual plot of Gandhi's An autobiography -- Malcolm X and the Black Muslim search for the ultimate -- Black Elk speaks: a century later -- The remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An orphan in history -- I Rigoberta Menchú: the plotting of liberation -- Dan Wakefield's Returning -- Retraveling the century: Nelson Mandela's Long walk to freedom.

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Subjects

Autobiografieen Autobiographie -- Aspect religieux Autobiography -- Religious aspects Bekende mensen Biographies spirituelles -- Histoire et… Criticism, interpretation, etc RELIGION -- Christianity Spiritual biography Spiritual biography -- History and crit… Spiritualiteit

Writers

Leigh, David J.

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