Repairing the Ladder to Heaven
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the novel form have both long been associated with the secular. But scholars often conflate two definitions of secular, one being the sense of earthly, the other the sense of antireligious. This causes them to misread Stowe as moving away from religion. In The Ministe...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Christianity & literature |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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Christianity & literature
Jahr: 2018, Band: 67, Heft: 3, Seiten: 436-453 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus CD Christentum und Kultur KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KDD Evangelische Kirche |
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CHRISTIANITY & literature
B Secularity B STOWE, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 B Secularization (Theology) B Calvinism B Theology in literature B Secularization B nineteenth-century American literature B American fiction 19th century History & criticism B MINISTER'S Wooing, The (Book) B The Minister's Wooing B novel form B Secular B Harriet Beecher Stowe B Secularism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Harriet Beecher Stowe and the novel form have both long been associated with the secular. But scholars often conflate two definitions of secular, one being the sense of earthly, the other the sense of antireligious. This causes them to misread Stowe as moving away from religion. In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe criticizes a type of Calvinism by emphasizing earthly experience as a source of religious knowledge. Both the theologians she examines and many modern critics assume a binary between the secular and the religious that Stowe dismantles. The novel form, far from inherently irreligious, was ideal for her theological purposes. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117723908 |