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Down from the mountaintop : from belief to belonging / Joshua Dolezal ; design by Barbara Haines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolezal, Joshua A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pentecostal churches--Doctrines--Montana.
- Pentecostal churches.
- Pentecostalism--Montana.
- Pentecostalism.
- Theology, Doctrinal--Montana.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City, [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, a
- Contents:
- Contents; Author's Note; Prelude; Part One; 1. The Sweet Spot; 2. The Shadow of the Kootenai; 3. Purple Gold; 4. The Power Team; 5. The Wide World; Part Two; 6. Dogwood; 7. Alberta; 8. English Major; 9. Uruguay; Part Three; 10. Selway by Headlamp; 11. The Tao of River Trash; 12. Down from the Mountaintop; 13. Circles; Postlude; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609382490
- 1609382498
- OCLC:
- 870950680
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