BOOKS - Circuitous Journeys
US $8.61
86126
86126
Circuitous Journeys
Author: David J. Leigh
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 15 MB
Language: English
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 15 MB
Language: English
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 text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St Augustine s Confessions but with a focus on distinctively modern and post modern transformations of the self writing genre The twentieth century context of religious alienation social autonomy identity crises and politics and the search for social justice is examined in each text
You may also be interested in:
