| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254). |
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Attunement -- Thin places -- Jesus raves -- The big empty -- Good karma -- Habitus -- Stitching -- Phone calls from the apocalypse -- Shakers -- A theory of immortality -- The other city -- Soon this space will be too small -- Backward miracle. |
| Summary |
When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, just naturally reverent, a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé. A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay Thin Places (Best American Essays 2016), about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness, the limits of the self, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9780374274641 |
| Subject |
Kisner, Jordan, 1987-
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American essays.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780374719388
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| STANDARD # |
08206992-4E24-4476-83BA-555E5346F6F9 OverDrive |
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