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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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text file |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dolezal, Joshua A.
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Dolezal, Joshua A. |
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Spirituality -- Fiction.
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Spirituality. |
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Fiction.
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Religion -- Fiction.
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Religion. |
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Self-realization -- Fiction.
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Self-realization. |
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Biography -- 20th century.
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Biography. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Print version: Dolezal, Joshua. Down from the Mountaintop : From Belief to Belonging. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2014 9781609382391 |
| ISBN |
9781609382490 (electronic book) |
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1609382498 (electronic book) |
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9781609382391 |
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1609382390 |
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