Religious Conversion and Identity

The Semiotic Analysis of Texts
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-30611-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

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, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new language of the soul.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leone, Massimo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 The destabilization of the self; Chapter 2 The crisis of the self; Chapter 3 The re-stabilization of the self; Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Massimo Leone lectures in Semiotics at the University of Siena, Italy.