Seeing the light : the social logic of personal discovery /

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The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see." Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultimately caused him to see the err...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeGloma, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
Autonomy (Psychology)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Religious awakening.
Réveil religieux.
PSYCHOLOGY > Applied Psychology.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > General.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Happiness.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Success.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discovering "truth"
  • Awakenings
  • Dimensions of autobiographical work
  • The awakening-story formula
  • The semiotic stricture of awakening stories
  • The awakener as a social type of storyteller
  • Autobiographical communities and autobiographical fields
  • Methods and data
  • Outline of the book
  • Awakenings: a cultural history
  • Zarathustra
  • Plato's allegory of the cave
  • Foundational religious awakenings
  • Foundational political awakenings
  • Freud and the psychoanalytic case study
  • Late modern awakenings
  • Mnemonic revisions and cultural contentions
  • Formulaic mnemonic revisions
  • Autobiographical memory and cultural contention
  • Shaping the collective mnemonic record
  • Shaping the cultural milieu for personal memory
  • Vocabularies of liminality
  • Sociomental express elevators
  • Sociomental staircases
  • Combining elevators and staircases
  • The temporally divided self
  • Portraying the temporally divided self
  • Culture and autobiographical narrative.

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