Faith, Sex, Mystery (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Gilman
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Primarily New York City, Colorado Springs, and New Orleans
- Principal Characters: Richard Gilman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jews or Jewish life, Death or dying, Faith, Catholics or Catholic Church, Theism
Form and Content
Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir is divided into five chapters plus a brief but significant introduction. In it, Richard Gilman traces the growth and decline of his religious life from a childhood in a home which was Jewish only in its ethnicity to baptism and active membership in the Roman Catholic church to his present position as a nonparticipatory theist. The first chapter is the longest, 82 out of the 253 pages.
Gilman is originally attracted to Roman Catholicism by its intellectual structure, especially its appearance in the great literature of...
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