| Description |
1 online resource (379 pages) |
| Series |
Religion & Literature, No 2 ; v. No 2 |
|
Religion & Literature, No 2
|
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain; 2 Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness; 3 The Psychology of Conversion in G.K. Chesteron and C.S. Lewis; 4 The Dual Plot of Gandhi's An Autobiography; 5 Malcolm X and the Black Muslim Search for the Ultimate; 6 Black Elk Speaks: A Century Later; 7 The Remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History; 8 I, Rigoberta Menchú: The Plotting of Liberation; 9 Dan Wakefield's Returning; 10 Retraveling the Century: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom |
| Summary |
Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan, Rigoberta Menchu, Dan Wakefield, and Nelson Mandela. The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan). Each te |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Spiritual biography -- History and criticism
|
|
Autobiography -- Religious aspects
|
|
Spiritual biography
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780823219957 |
|
082321995X |
|
058541680X |
|
9780585416809 |
|
0823219933 |
|
9780823219933 |
|
0823237451 |
|
9780823237456 |
|
