Synopses & Reviews
The thesis of this study is that Christian Science was a manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the Civil War. The age in which the movement flowered was, at once, sordid and gilded, commercial and optimistic. The stormy way through which the new religion passed was, in a sense, the road upon which all new ideas and schemes are tried. Mrs. Eddy's vision was subjected to reasoned and irrational scrutiny for 40 years. In truth, Christian Science belonged only tenuously to a modern era. It reflected the prevailing optimism, progressivism, utopianism, and feminism of the Gilded Age but did not illuminate the stage with a unique light of its own.
Synopsis
This study sees Christian Science as a manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the Civil War.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
About the Author
STUART E. KNEE is Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Born in Belief
Disciples and Dissidents
Roads Converging and Diverging
Swords and Plowshares
Live and Let Live
Monopoly and Muckraking
Nobody Knows My Name
Bibliography
Index