Postsecular Conversions: From Traveling Mercies to Fight Club
In "Postsecular Conversions" I argue that recent nonfiction and fiction has worked to replace the conventional drama of religious conversion that rigorously binds conviction, affection, and practice to one another with a conversion of affections alone. Thus Anne Lamott and Chuck Palahniuk...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51/52, Issue: 3/1, Pages: 23-49 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture |
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Postsecularism
B Lamott, Anne B Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Book) B RELIGION & literature B CONVERSION (Religion) |
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| Summary: | In "Postsecular Conversions" I argue that recent nonfiction and fiction has worked to replace the conventional drama of religious conversion that rigorously binds conviction, affection, and practice to one another with a conversion of affections alone. Thus Anne Lamott and Chuck Palahniuk have worked by borrowing conventions from conversion narratives like Paul’s Damascus road experience in the Book of Acts and Augustine’s Confessions, but rather than displaying conversions of beliefs or ideology, these texts focus almost exclusively upon what Lamott calls strong "feelings" and Palahniuk "experiences," thereby demonstrating the direction of much contemporary literature and religion. |
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| Item Description: | Die Hefte mit der Zählung 51.2020,3 und 52.2021,1 sind als Doppelheft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2019.0065 |