@article{1477495,
      recid = {1477495},
      author = {Leigh, David J., },
      title = {Circuitous Journeys : Modern Spiritual Autobiography /},
      pages = {1 online resource (259 p.)},
      abstract = {Circuitous 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477495},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237456},
}