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She says here that it is learned men, not women, who are responsible for misreadings of the Bible. Women were the first to see the risen Christ, and are allowed to read for themselves now...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic

In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the Catholic Church

She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she...

He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and...

The Catholic clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either...

Through religious allusion and diction, VM addresses the theme of sacred and profane love and explores the ethical dilemmas of a love triangle in a small village. Evan Davidstow, an altruistic lawyer, is caught between...

MDF 's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at...

Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism as a central theme. GG thought it the most satisfactory of his novels....

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

AS begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect...

Nor does the new Catholic middle class escape unscathed, as ML emphasizes the unnecessary squalor of their dwellings. One house that Hogan visits seems on first glance full of plenty and sophistication, but daylight reveals...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .