Down from the mountaintop
Subtitle: from belief to belonging
By: Joshua Dolez̆al
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781609382391
Subjects: Spirituality; Fiction; Religion; Self-realization; Biography; Pentecostalism
Description: "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, and Uruguay. Yet even as he sought to understand his place in the world, he continued to yearn for his mountain home."--Publisher's webpage.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Prelude; title: Part One: 1. The sweet spot; title: 2. The shadow of the Kootenai; title: 3. Purple gold; title: 4. The power team; title: 5. The wide world; title: Part Two: 6. Dogwood; title: 7. Alberta; title: 8. English major; title: 9. Uruguay; title: Part Three: 10. Selway by headlamp; title: 11. The Tao of river trash; title: 12. Down from the mountaintop; title: 13. Circles; title: Postlude; title: Acknowledgments.