Dorothy Day "The Long Lonliness"

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" This study will examine Dorothy Day's autobiography The Long Loneliness, focusing on the development of Day's religious consciousness and her relationship with God. The study will argue that the spiritual and religious evolution of Day took place in two parts, the first including the confused years up to the birth of her daughter, and the second including the years after that birth.

There is much paradox in the process whereby Day's religious faith grew and deepened. Day's Catholicism, once it clearly emerged, was a strict one, based on conservative moral views. Yet her pregnancy and the birth of the daughter which took her fully into the territory of faith were marked on the surface by anything but religious elements. She became pregnant by a man to whom she was not married, a man who was staunchly opposed to the.."

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