Christianity

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Cultural formation Annie Besant
In the course of her life, AB explored many facets of religion and politics. Early in her life she entertained a passionate Christian devotion and was inspired by the idea of sacrifice, even martyrdom. She...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Frances Billington
From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Frances Brooke
Judith Romilly progresses from an old and cramping belief onward to the next unfolding phase—to one tasting the joys of a loftier and more austere atmosphere
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son.
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through her encounters with the hero and...
politics Mary Carpenter
MC was impartially critical of various Hindu , Muslim , and Parsi practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity
Textual Features Leonora Carrington
The play comprises its characters' conversation about and preparation for their feast, during which Montezuma leads a jovial yet sharp attack on rituals and narratives of Christianity . It concludes with the arrival of the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Leonora Carrington
Pushing against the femme-enfant who frequently emerges at the centre of surrealist art and writing, this book's heroine, Marion Leatherby, is a ninety-two-year-old crone. She is described by her grandson as a drooling sack of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Hume Clapperton
JHC responds that Lathbury has missed several benefits that agnosticism offers to women and to society at large, including the exchange of truth for delusion, a standpoint from which clearness of thought and stability of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
While the twenty-two volumes cover a wide range of topics, eight of them directly address the history or practices of Christianity and four focus on philosophical topics. These belonged, CFC felt, to a subject complementary...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC 's introduction regrets the effects of sectarian or partisan interpretations of primitive Christianity . She firmly believed that in order to be the best possible Christian one should not only make a thorough study...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Isabella Duberly
The title-page quotes James Beattie and Shakespeare . For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars . FID 's preface declares her intention of reporting the...
Textual Features Maureen Duffy
This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ , whom she calls the Hanged Man. She...
Cultural formation Rosita Forbes
Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
MF begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West 's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent...

Timeline

7 March 203: In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus,...

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7 March 203

In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus , Perpetua , author of the earliest surviving text in Latin by a woman, was martyred at Carthage in North Africa.

6 June 1391: A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted...

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6 June 1391

A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted an attack on the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain.

1733: A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed...

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1733

A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed that no one shall be deemed a mulatto after the third generation . . . but . . . shall have all the privileges and immunities of...

1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

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1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.

By late October 1942: C. S. Lewis published the book version of...

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By late October 1942

C. S. Lewis published the book version of The Screwtape Letters, an epistolary fiction in which a senior devil, Screwtape, offers advice to his nephew, a junior devil, on tempting and ultimately damning a...

1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).

1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...

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1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feministtheology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly, Christian thinking about women.

14-15 November 2014: At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in...

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14-15 November 2014

At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in north-east Nigeria, 276 students who were there during the holidays to take a physics exam were abducted by the terrorist group calling itself Boko Haram ...

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