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We remember Harriet Beecher Stowe as a novelist, but she was also a prolific and influential writer about religious matters. As editor of Stowe’s religious writings for Oxford University Press, Claudia Stokes will examine Stowe’s forgotten religious works and will present Stowe as the first feminist theologian. Decades before such landmark works of religious feminism as Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible (1895), Stowe sought to highlight the importance of women in scripture and repeatedly depicted the deity as a loving mother. Stowe was the daughter, wife, and sister of ministers, but in her writings she boldly presented Christianity as feminine and female-centered.
Dr. Claudia Stokes is Professor of English at Trinity University. She specializes in nineteenth-century American women writers and is currently editing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s religious writings for the Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, to be published by Oxford University Press.
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