1st Edition
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven Nature and Flower Imagery in Latter-Day Saints Women's Literature, 1880-1920
By Susanna Morrill
Copyright 2006
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2006. This volume marks the tenth volume in its series: Religion in History, Society and Culture. This series is designed to bring exciting new work by young scholars on religion to a wider audience. Susanna Morrill offers here a fine and sensitive reading of the little known, and often simply caricatured, history of the religious lives of Mormon women at the turn of the... Read more
Introduction 1. The Wider Cultural Context and the Mormon Sources 2. The Adoption and Adaptation of Nature and Flower Imagery by Mormon Women Writers: The Theological and Institutional Context 3. The Adoption and Adaptation of Nature and Flower Imagery by Mormon Women Writers: The Cultural Context 4. Femaleness, Nature, and Virtue: A Triangle of Theological Meaning 5. Motherhood and the Home in the Theology of Nature and Flower Imagery 6. Suffering Women and the Theodicy of Nature and Flower Imagery Conclusion Bibliography Index
Biography
Susanna Morrill is currently Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has contributed articles to The Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics and also was a selector and reviewer of websites for Britannica.com.
