In Religious Experience and the New Woman, Joanna Dean traces the                  development of liberal spirituality in the early 20th century through the life and                  work of Lily Dougall (1858--1923), a New Woman novelist who became known as a                  religious essayist and Anglican modernist. Dean examines the connections between                  Dougall's marginal position as a woman intellectual and her experiential,                  combatively iconoclastic theology, and demonstrates that through her writing and                  mentoring, Dougall contributed to the shaping of modern                  spirituality.Lily Dougall described religious experience -- the                  sense of the presence of God -- as the "rock" of her theology. Dean                  observes the protean nature of this rock as Dougall moved from a submissive holiness                  faith, to a mystical Mauricean sense of the Kingdom of God, to the relational                  theology of personal idealism, and reveals how psychology, which appeared to provide                  scientific support for her religious beliefs, eventually threatened to undermine her                  experiential faith.

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