04066nam 2200841Ia 450 991095471450332120200520144314.0978058541680X97866126985769780823246724082324672897812826985741282698575978082323745608232374519780823219957082321995X9780585416809058541680X10.1515/9780823237456(CKB)111056486761104(EBL)476672(OCoLC)727645693(SSID)ssj0000070958(PQKBManifestationID)11109852(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070958(PQKBWorkID)10069831(PQKB)10804245(OCoLC)50649412(MdBmJHUP)muse14888(DE-B1597)555357(DE-B1597)9780823237456(Au-PeEL)EBL3239503(CaPaEBR)ebr10365124(OCoLC)1098599837(Au-PeEL)EBL476672(Perlego)535538(MiAaPQ)EBC3239503(MiAaPQ)EBC476672(EXLCZ)9911105648676110419991214d2000 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrCircuitous journeys modern spiritual autobiography /David J. LeighNew York Fordham University Press20001 online resource (276 p.)Studies in religion and literature,1096-6692 ;no. 2Description based upon print version of record.9780823219940 0823219941 9780823219933 0823219933 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Acknowledgments --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 Menchu: The Plotting of Liberation --9. Dan Wakefield's Returning --10. Retraveling the Century: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom --Conclusion --IndexCircuitous 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.Studies in religion and literature (Fordham University Press) ;no. 2.AutobiographyReligious aspectsSpiritual biographyHistory and criticismAutobiographyReligious aspects.Spiritual biographyHistory and criticism.291.4/092/2BLeigh David J1809442MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954714503321Circuitous journeys4464982UNINA