| Description |
256 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254). |
| 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, zjust naturally reverent,y a fact that didnt change when shemuch to her own confusionlost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: zYou 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.y A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisners work. Her celebrated essay zThin Placesy (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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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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| ISBN |
9780374274641 (hardcover) |
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0374274649 (hardcover) |
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