Down from the mountaintop : from belief to belonging / / Joshua Dolezal ; design by Barbara Haines

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822833203321
• Autore: Dolezal Joshua A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, [Iowa] : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-60938-249-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 230.994
• Soggetti: Pentecostal churches - Doctrines - Montana; Pentecostalism - Montana; Theology, Doctrinal - Montana
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Author's Note; Prelude; Part One; 1. The Sweet Spot; 2. The Shadow of the Kootenai; 3. Purple Gold; 4. The Power Team; 5. The Wide World; Part Two; 6. Dogwood; 7. Alberta; 8. English Major; 9. Uruguay; Part Three; 10. Selway by Headlamp; 11. The Tao of River Trash; 12. Down from the Mountaintop; 13. Circles; Postlude; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents' quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, a