1st Edition

Religious Conversion and Identity The Semiotic Analysis of Texts

By Massimo Leone Copyright 2004
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

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

    Biography

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