1st Edition
Religious Conversion and Identity The Semiotic Analysis of Texts
By Massimo Leone
Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity,... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The destabilization of the self; Chapter 2 The crisis of the self; Chapter 3 The re-stabilization of the self; Conclusion;
Biography
Massimo Leone lectures in Semiotics at the University of Siena, Italy.
