Jessica Wilbanks

When I Spoke in Tongues (eBook, ePUB)

A Pentecostal Girlhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A memoir of the profound destabilization that comes from losing one's faith--and a young woman's journey to reconcile her lack of belief with her love for her deeply religious family. Growing up in poverty in the rural backwoods of southern Maryland, the Pentecostal church was at the core of Jessica Wilbanks' family life. At sixteen, driven by a desire to discover the world, Jessica walked away from the church--trading her faith for freedom, and driving a wedge between her and her deeply religious family. But fundamentalist faiths haunt their adherents long after belief fades--former believers frequently live in limbo, straddling two world views and trying to reconcile their past and present. Ten years later, struggling with guilt and shame, Jessica began a quest to recover her faith. It led her to West Africa, where she explored the Yorùbá roots of the Pentecostal faith, and was once again swept up by the promises and power of the church. After a terrifying car crash, she finally began the difficult work of forgiving herself for leaving the church and her family and finding her own path. When I Spoke in Tongues is a story of the painful and complicated process of losing one's faith and moving across class divides. And in the end, it's a story of how a family splintered by dogmatic faith can eventually be knit together again through love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807092248
• Artikelnr.: 54522961

Autorenporträt

Jessica Wilbanks is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as creative nonfiction awards from Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Redivider, and Ruminate magazine. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Journalism. Jessica received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Houston, where she served as nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I
CHAPTER 1
Ghost Language
CHAPTER 2
House-Hunting
CHAPTER 3
Upon This Rock
CHAPTER 4
Revival
CHAPTER 5
The Beach
CHAPTER 6
Ori and Joe
CHAPTER 7
Mushrooms
CHAPTER 8
Live Nativity
CHAPTER 9
Forgiven
PART II
CHAPTER 10
Left Behind
CHAPTER 11
Made in Nigeria
CHAPTER 12
The County
CHAPTER 13
Beloved, Feel Free
CHAPTER 14
Trigger of Africa
CHAPTER 15
The Virgin
CHAPTER 16
On the Far Side of the Fire
CHAPTER 17
The Edge of the Abyss
CHAPTER 18
Back Home
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources