Scattering point : the world in a Mennonite eye /

"Part Memoir, part family history, part meditation on history and the present, this work of creative nonfiction allows Jeff Gundy to ask what it should mean to "live in the world but not of it," as the traditional Mennonite saying recommends. As Scattering Point moves through time and...

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Main Author: Gundy, Jeffrey Gene, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2003.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1417506709
9781417506705
0791456579
9780791456576
0791456587
9780791456583
9780791487174
0791487172
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Cathedrals, Churches, Caves: Notes on Architecture, History, and Worship
  • 2. Fantasia with Raspberries, Baby Chicks, Wine and Roses
  • 3. Scattering Point
  • 4. Scatter Plots: Depression, Silence, and Mennonite Margins
  • 5. Notebook in My Back Pocket
  • 6. Where We Live: Two Scenes from the Black Swamp
  • 7. Sparrow in the Mead Hall: On Birds, Souls, and the World
  • 8. "Would You Have Left All This for Waldo?": Notes on a Partial Pilgrimage.