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Abstract
This essay discloses how autobiographies of conversion may use the resources of narrative form to construct myths of self which testify to the sincerity and significance of their conversion experiences. It identifies two strategies of form useful for these purposes and illustrates their operation in Charles W. Colson's spiritual autobiography, Born Again. The essay concludes that the rhetoric of form in conversion narratives elucidates both narrative and autobiographical theory by illustrating how form serves the demands of genre.
