Christianity

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 through her encounters with the hero and...

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...

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...