Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis of Texts / Edition 1

by Massimo Leone

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780415306119
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/18/2003
Series:	Routledge Studies in Religion , #3
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table 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;