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14 de ene. de 2019 · Scholar uncovers Virginia Woolf’s desire to ‘re-create sacred community’. Stephanie Paulsell is a scholar of religion and a person of deep faith, but when deciding on a subject for her latest research, she chose one of literary history’s most committed atheists.
20 de oct. de 2020 · Virginia Woolf’s criticism of religion has often been central in critical literature on her work. As recent scholarship points out, however, certain characteristics in her writings—such as her questioning tone, her eagerness to understand the meaning of life, or her usage of religious language—suggest that there is an underlying spirituality.
7 de ago. de 2015 · This article explores Virginia Woolf's conflicted relationship with Christianity, namely, her avowed atheism and hostility to religious dogma, yet her openness to mystical experience and her use of the language of Christian mysticism in her writing.
24 de ene. de 2020 · From her agnostic parents to her evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf’s personal circle was filled with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian converts.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Summary. FOR MANY DECADES, Virginia Woolf was regarded as an atheist who was hostile to religion in general and Christianity in particular. After all, she declared T. S. Eliot ‘dead to us all’ on becoming an Anglo-Catholic, adding that ‘there’s something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God’; she shouted ...
Virginia Woolf inherited the humanism of her parents and, believing in neither God nor afterlife, emphasised instead the primacy of the present moment. Like Mrs Dalloway (from Woolf’s novel of 1925), hers was an ‘atheist’s religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.’
This article explores Virginia Woolf’s conflicted relationship with Christianity, namely, her avowed atheism and hostility to religious dogma, yet her openness to mystical experience and her use of the language of Christian mysticism in her writing.
