Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics

by Rob Wilson

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"Be always converting, and be always converted; turn us again, O Lord," Thomas Shepard urged his Cambridge congregation in the 1640s. This mandate coming down from American Puritan times to New Age seekers, to be "always converting, and always converted," places a radical burden on the self as site of renewal and world-change, even as conversion becomes surrounded by deconversion (rejection of prior beliefs) and counterconversion (turns to alternative...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674033434

ISBN13:9780674033436

Release Date:June 2009

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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