Memoirs of the Spirit - Tapa dura

This anthology displays the tapestry of religious experience in America during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies, ordered chronologically, uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.
Featuring a full-page portrait of most of the writers included in the volume as well as insightful introductory comments by Edwin Gaustad, Memoirs of the Spirit offers an enlightening view of America's rich religious past - and suggests the multiplicity that is America's religious future.

This anthology offers a fascinating entry in the study of American religious experience during the past three centuries. Compiled and edited by a foremost historian of American religion, these twenty-six spiritual autobiographies uniquely capture the nation's soul in the words of the people who helped shape it.

Spiritual autobiographies by: Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen, Peter Cartwright, Orestes Brownson, Frederick Douglass, Isaac Mayer Wise, Black Elk, Harry Emerson Fosdick, John LaFarge, Mary Antin, Reinhold Niebuhr, Pararnahansa Yogananda, Benjamin E. Mays, Dorothy Day, Mary McCarthy, Virginia Sorenson, Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Billy Graham, Jimmy Carter, William E. Buckley Jr., Maya Angelou, Barbara G. Harrison, and Richard Rodriguez.