RECORDING of February Meeting — Nicole Ruane — "Mary Baker Eddy: New Hampshire's Most Important Religious Thinker"

Click Here to Watch the Recording on the WNHHS YouTube Channel [Note: with apologies to Nicole Ruane, this recording started late, so the first few minutes of the program is missing]

Mary Baker Eddy: New Hampshire's Most Important Religious Thinker

With professor and lecturer Nicole Ruane

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the "New Hampshire Humanities "Humanities to Go" program.

Mary Baker Eddy was New Hampshire's most important and most innovative religious thinker. Mark Twain called Eddy "the most interesting woman that ever lived, and the most extraordinary." The church she founded, The Church of Christ, Scientist, profoundly affected both American ideologies of religion as well as public opinion of the role of women in society. This program discusses the ways in which Eddy's experience as a woman in Victorian-era America influenced her gendered understanding of God as well as the nature of humanity, the body,…