Religious conversion and identity : the semiotic analysis of texts / Massimo Leone.

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 reli...

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Main Author: Leone, Massimo, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge studies in religion.
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505 0 |a Religious Conversion and Identity The semiotic analysis of texts; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Vertigos and lies; 1 The destabilization of the self; Comparing fiction and reality: some epistemological notes; Preaching and conversion after the Council of Trent; The mute word: cultural obstacles between preaching and conversion; The eloquent icon: sermons of images and images of sermons in early-modern Catholic evangelization; 2 The crisis of the self; Conversion and treason; Conversion and controversy; Conclusion. 
505 8 |a 3 The re-stabilization of the selfIntroduction; The conversion of ideas: the fig tree; The conversion of passions: the mirror and the ointment; The conversion of actions: the horse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Conversion  |x Christianity  |x History. 
650 0 |a Identification (Religion)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Christian converts  |x Biography  |x History and criticism. 
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