Religious Conversion and Identity - The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. This books studies this interesting topic.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Leone, Leone Massimo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415859936
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85993-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion; Routledge Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Faith, Religion: general, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Archaeological Theory