RECORD
Holy Places: The In-Between Spaces of Spiritual Identity
- Title:
- Holy Places: The In-Between Spaces of Spiritual Identity
- Creator:
- Oyler, Devon
- Date Created:
- 2024-05
- Description:
- Literature Review: "The title “Holy Places” comes from a few places. I chose it before I had really even started working on my thesis. I was messing around with the Procreate app on my iPad, creating fake book covers and playing with colorful gradients. Something about the way the colors blurred and blended together reminded me of Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands”, the in-between spaces, the bridges, the grey areas. It felt fitting for a journey that has felt slow at times slow and lightning fast at others. Figuring out what I really believed and what I really felt (and not just what I thought I should believe or feel) left me floating in these blurred planes for a long time. Looking back on my old journal entries is strange, especially seeing the way child-me was so convinced of the truth and perfection of an entire ideology and institution based on faith alone. In reality, it was simply all I had ever known, the only solid color in which I had been allowed to reside. . . ."
- Subjects:
- LDS church Mormon identity music testimonial writing journaling website Gloria Anzaldúa Robin Wall Kimmerer religion spirituality
- Methods:
- archival analysis creative writing autoethnography digital humanities
- Location:
- Salt Lake Valley, UT; Las Vegas
- Latitude:
- 40.69287063
- Longitude:
- -111.9044359
- Language:
- English
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Holy Places: The In-Between Spaces of Spiritual Identity", English Honors Thesis Repository, Nevada State University
- Reference Link:
- https://nevada-state-english.github.io/nsu-english-thesis/items/ht017.html