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This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession
- Title
- This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession / Cameron Dezen Hammon.
- Author
- Hammon, Cameron Dezen
- Publication
- Wilmington, NC : Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 191 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In this memoir of faith and faltering, musician Cameron Dezen Hammon, a Jew-ish New Yorker, finds herself searching for love, meaning-a sign. She's led to Coney Island, where during a lightning storm, she is baptized in the murky waters of the Atlantic by a group of ragtag converts. After years of trying to make a name for herself as an artist, she follows her boyfriend and new God to Houston, Texas, the heart of American evangelical subculture. Her job at a suburban megachurch there has her performing on stage before crowds, awash in lights and smoke, yet grappling with outdated gender expectations-look pretty but not too pretty, young but not too young-and ultimately her identity as both a believer and feminist. This Is My Body weaves her zealous conversion with the search for a more progressive and fluid theology, the endurance of marriage with an unexpected obsession that threatens to upend her carefully constructed life. From speaking in tongues to street preaching, from biblically sanctioned discrimination to sexual assault, she invites readers inside this tender and harrowing journey. Part inspiring spiritual memoir, part incisive cultural critique, her story of finding and losing faith is ultimately one of rebuilding a truer, braver self"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- Dead girls -- Shells -- You must change your life -- Tell you what he needs -- Tongues -- Withdrawal -- Submit -- Look too closely -- The girl I didn't save -- The thing itself -- Phoenix -- This is my body -- Then sings my soul (two agnostics walk into a coffee shop) -- Epilogue: Mystery.
- Call Number
- JND 20-82
- ISBN
- 9781940596327
- 1940596327
- 9781940596372 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019025998
- OCLC
- 1105737918
- Author
- Hammon, Cameron Dezen, author.
- Title
- This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession / Cameron Dezen Hammon.
- Publisher
- Wilmington, NC : Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- AN AP PLUS! BOOK. NARRATIVE OF MUSICIAN'S JEWISH-TO-CHRISTIAN CONVERSION.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Hammon, Cameron Dezen This is my body Wilmington : Lookout Books, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2019. 9781940596372 (DLC) 2019025999
- Research Call Number
- JND 20-82