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Living Hymns and Iterations

University of Illinois at Chicago

This text is a spiritual (re)search. I selected a local Pentecostal church that would align with and trouble the conservative Methodist Christian background with which I grew up. The text (re)creates this tension. How do I (re)create belief? How do I (re)construct ("preserve") reality? How do I preserve the Self in the face of a changing Other? How do I (re)construct the Other in the face of a changing Self? I explore and alter this border of Self/Other, specifically the portion that defines spirituality/rationality. I allow for and encourage the overlap of desire and observation. I experiment with modes of spirituality/ rationality, with fields of possible/impossible. Using the Christian Trinity as a structure, I juxtapose identities and modes to create a text that is disjointed, nonlinear, and multiple. A prayer, a hymn, a true fiction.

Key Words: spirituality • reality • belief • faith • identity • religion • Christianity • Pentecostal

This version was published on December 1, 2008

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 8, 1526-1539 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408318422


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