Overview
- Explores the life and religious teachings of Laurence Oliphant
- Provides new insights into The Household, a secretive religious commune
- Discusses Oliphant's unique interpretation of sexuality
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the religious teachings of best-selling Victorian author and former Member of Parliament, Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888). While several biographies have been written on his captivating life, the stage of his life when Oliphant first established ‘The Household' commune has, until now, been largely unexplored. This book focuses on this later stage of his life, exploring Oliphant’s religious teachings. Additionally, this study incorporates a newly discovered archive, which reveals many behind-the-scenes details of The Household's teachings. Jeffrey D. Lavoie shows that Oliphant provided a unique interpretation of sexuality from a mystical Christian perspective, which opposed the restrictive contemporaneous “Victorian morality."
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jeffrey D. Lavoie is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888) and The Household
Book Subtitle: The Christian Mystical Teachings of a Nineteenth Century Religious Leader
Authors: Jeffrey D. Lavoie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85050-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85049-4Published: 29 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85050-0Published: 28 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 160
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Religion, Christianity, Religious Studies, general, Gender Studies