Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography - Couverture rigide

Leigh, David J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823219933 ISBN 13 : 9780823219933

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David J. Leigh, S.J. is Professor of English at Seattle University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823219933
• ISBN 13: 9780823219933
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 259
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible