Circuitous journeys
Subtitle: modern spiritual autobiography
By: by David J. Leigh.
Series: Studies in religion and literature,; no. 2; Studies in religion and literature (Fordham University Press) ;; 2.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Spiritual biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Religious aspects
Description: "Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders, thinkers, and activists from a variety of religious and cultural traditions." "Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine's Confessions, but with an emphasis on distinctively modern and post modern transformations of the self-writing genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.