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This is my body : a memoir of religious and romantic obsession / Cameron Dezen Hammon.

by Hammon, Cameron Dezen.

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Lookout Books, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2019.

Hammon, Cameron Dezen.

Singers -- United States -- Biography.

Contemporary Christian musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Christian life -- United States.

9781940596327 (pbk.)

xiii, 191 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

Author and musician Cameron Dezen Hammon, a Jewish 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. 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.

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