Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain 32
7. 2. Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness 56
8. 3. The Psychology of Conversion in G. K. Chesteron and C. S. Lewis 81
9. 4. The Dual Plot of Gandhi's An Autobiography 102
10. 5. Malcolm X and the Black Muslim Search for the Ultimate 137
11. 6. Black Elk Speaks: A Century Later 162
12. 7. The Remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History 178
13. 8. I, Rigoberta Menchu: The Plotting of Liberation 197
14. 9. Dan Wakefield's Returning 215
15. 10. Retraveling the Century: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom 230
16. Conclusion 253
17. Index 257