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Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature: The Aging Woman in the Image of God

Scarlett Cunningham

Readers will be ushered into their own spiritual experience of literature as they consider how American writers craft images of God that affirm the aging process. In deploying the motif of the imago Dei, it establishes that literature reveals how spirituality influences experiences of aging and how aging itself is a spiritual process

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Nov 28th, 2024
  • Pages: 204
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.46in - 0.66lb
  • EAN: 9781032454726
  • Categories: Subjects & Themes - WomenAmerican - GeneralFeminism & Feminist Theory

About the Author

Scarlett Cunningham works in the education and nonprofit sectors at the intersections of literary studies, theology, and social work. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Women's Studies and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Alabama and her doctorate in English from the University of Mississippi, with specialties in American Literature, aging, gender, and religion. She has taught at several state and faith-based institutions across the United States, where her offerings have included courses on writing, American Literature, Women's Studies, body image in literature, and religion in literature.