Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith

by John D. Barbour

Book Overview

In Versions of Deconversion John Barbour examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyze the ways in which they have interpreted loss. For some the experience of deconversion led to atheism or agnosticism, and others used deconversion as a metaphor or analogy to interpret an experience of personal transformation. Versions of Deconversion should appeal at once to scholars in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813915465
• ISBN13: 9780813915463
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"