- on songs about spiritual dislocation and stubborn hope.

"Beyond Belief" can be read as a phenomenology of globalism: how ordinary people, born in primitive and tribal worlds, undergo the spiritual dislocations of economic revolution.

It is also worth noting that for all Russia's travails and spiritual dislocation, the people have proved surprisingly resistant to extremism.

In a telephone interview from his home in London, Mr. Rushdie described his book as partly "a comic novel" that deals with serious issues of "cultural and spiritual dislocation."

I have always come to these theatrical events hoping for the best, but have too often gone home experiencing spiritual dislocation and esthetic nausea.

The rest of "The Furies" focuses on Helen's efforts to elude the fate the women in her family seemed to share: loneliness, spiritual dislocation and depression.

There was a moment's holy hush; maybe even, among the old-timers, a quiver of spiritual dislocation.

A city populated only by rich and by poor experiences certain nasty spiritual dislocations, and it will be a while before the emerging non-white bourgeoisie is a real force for social stability.

Mr. Wright's new novel, "M31, A Family Romance," shares that earlier book's nervous, rhapsodic prose as well as its concern with our country's spiritual dislocations.

But even so, it had been a wrenching, disturbing process that had involved copious bloodshed as well as spiritual dislocation.