Down from the mountaintop : from belief to belonging

Down from the mountaintop From belief to belonging

Joshua Dolĕzal

Book - 2014

"A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents' quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, and Uruguay. Yet even as he sought to understand his place in the world, he continued to yearn for his mountain home."--Publisher's webpage.

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Subjects
Dolĕzal, Joshua.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Poets, American > 21st century > Biography.
Spiritual biography.
Self-realization.
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Joshua Dolĕzal (-)
Physical Description
181 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781609382391
  • Author's Note
  • Prelude
  • Part 1.
  • 1. The Sweet Spot
  • 2. The Shadow of the Kootenai
  • 3. Purple Gold
  • 4. The Power Team
  • 5. The Wide World
  • Part 2.
  • 6. Dogwood
  • 7. Alberta
  • 8. English Major
  • 9. Uruguay
  • Part 3.
  • 10. Selway by Headlamp
  • 11. The Tao of River Trash
  • 12. Down from the Mountaintop
  • 13. Circles
  • Postlude
  • Acknowledgments

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