LEADER 03869nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910813718703321 005 20240416135554.0 010 $a0-8232-4672-8 010 $a1-282-69857-5 010 $a978058541680X 010 $a9786612698576 010 $a0-8232-3745-1 010 $a0-8232-1995-X 010 $a0-585-41680-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237456 035 $a(CKB)111056486761104 035 $a(EBL)476672 035 $a(OCoLC)727645693 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000070958 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109852 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070958 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10069831 035 $a(PQKB)10804245 035 $a(OCoLC)50649412 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14888 035 $a(DE-B1597)555357 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239503 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365124 035 $a(OCoLC)1098599837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476672 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486761104 100 $a19991214d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCircuitous journeys $emodern spiritual autobiography /$fDavid J. Leigh 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in religion and literature,$x1096-6692 ;$vno. 2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-1994-1 311 0 $a0-8232-1993-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain --$t2. Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness --$t3. The Psychology of Conversion in G. K. Chesteron and C. S. Lewis --$t4. The Dual Plot of Gandhi's An Autobiography --$t5. Malcolm X and the Black Muslim Search for the Ultimate --$t6. Black Elk Speaks: A Century Later --$t7. The Remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History --$t8. I, Rigoberta Menchu: The Plotting of Liberation --$t9. Dan Wakefield's Returning --$t10. Retraveling the Century: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom --$tConclusion --$tIndex 330 $aCircuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan, Rigoberta Menchu, Dan Wakefield, and Nelson Mandela. The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan). Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine?s Confessions, but with a focus on distinctively modern and post-modern transformations of the self-writing genre. The twentieth-century context of religious alienation, social autonomy, identity crises and politics, and the search for social justice is examined in each text. 410 0$aStudies in religion and literature (Fordham University Press) ;$vno. 2. 606 $aAutobiography$xReligious aspects 606 $aSpiritual biography$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAutobiography$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aSpiritual biography$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a291.4/092/2 676 $aB 676 $a291.40922 700 $aLeigh$b David J$01618162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813718703321 996 $aCircuitous journeys$93949730 997 $aUNINA