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    Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung
    Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung
    Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung
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    Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung

    By Randi R. Warne

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    Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a “pulpit” from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God’s intention for Creation was a “Fair Deal” for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a perfect place to begin to bring that about.

    Woman suffrage, temperance and the ordination of women were keystones in the battle — engaged, in contrast to contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compelling humour that won over enemies as it delighted her allies. Literature as Pulpit explores Nellie McClung’s vision of a “better world,” and the impediments to it, as expressed through her novels and her feminist “tract,” In Times Like These. It addresses the profoundly anti-feminist context within which McClung was forced to make her arguments, and notes her indebtedness to other feminist writers and thinkers of her day. Throughout, McClung’s religion of “active care” emerges as a consistent and harmonizing theme which integrates her feminism and social activism into a single empowering vision for social change.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9780889205635
    Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung
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    Randi R. Warne

    Randi R. Warne is a professor of Cultural Studies, Philosophy/Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University. She works in the area of religion and culture, with particular attention to gender and gender theory. Her recent publications include articles on “Gender,” “Making the Gender Critical Turn,” “The Second Chance: Nellie McClung’s Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land” and a two volume co–edited work New Approaches to the Study of Religion, covering the last quarter century and published by Walter de Gruyter.

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