Title The meaning of lives : biography, autobiography, and the spiritual quest / Richard A. Hutch

Published London ; Washington : Cassell, 1997

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Description xii, 225 pages ; 24 cm Series Cassell religious studies Cassell religious studies. Contents 1. Biography and religious life -- 2. Searching for coherent character -- 3. Sensing fateful irony -- 4. Erik Erikson as a life-writer/reader -- 5. Biography, empathy, and introspection -- 6. Soteriological biography -- 7. Impulse to hagiography -- 8. The horror of becoming saints -- 9. Magical deification of a convulsing body -- 10. A foretaste of the world to come Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-215) and index Subject Autobiography -- Authorship. Biography as a literary form. Self-realization -- Religious aspects. Spiritual life. LC no. 96052894 ISBN 0304339172 (hardcover)

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