TY  - BOOK
AU  - McFarlane-Harris,Jennifer
AU  - Hamilton-Honey,Emily
TI  - Nineteenth-century American women writers and theologies of the afterlife: a step closer to heaven 
SN  - 100040725X
U1  - 810.9/928709034 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - American literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Future life in literature
KW  - Theology in literature
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - African American authors
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Theology
N2  - This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women's theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Belinda Marden Pratt, and others wrote to have a voice in the moral debates that were consuming churches and national politics. These texts are expressions of the lives and dynamic minds of women who developed sophisticated, systematic spiritual and textual approaches to the divine, to their denominations or religious traditions, and to the mainstream culture around them. Women do not simply live out theologies authored by men. Rather, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven is grounded in the radical notion that the theological principles crafted by women and derived from women's experiences, intellectual habits, and organizational capabilities are foundational to American literature itself
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003058595
ER  -