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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784671103321

Autore

Dean Joanna (Joanna Elizabeth)

Titolo

Religious experience and the new woman [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Lily Dougall / / Joanna Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07555-1

9786612075551

0-253-11242-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

230/.3092

Soggetti

Modernism (Christian theology) - Anglican Communion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An evangelical childhood -- "Lovereen" : an untold story -- Gendering the crisis of faith -- "She was always a queer child" -- Personal idealism -- Christian socialism : "the Kingdom of God within us and around us" -- The making of a modernist mysticism -- Fellowship -- Body and soul -- Anglican modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

In Religious Experience and the New Woman, Joanna Dean traces the                development of liberal spirituality in the early 20th century through the life and                work of Lily Dougall (1858--1923), a New Woman novelist who became known as a                religious essayist and Anglican modernist. Dean examines the connections between                Dougall's marginal position as a woman intellectual and her experiential,                combatively iconoclastic theology, and demonstrates that through her writing and                mentoring, Dougall contributed to the shapin