Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) facilitated the development of New Thought in America. She worked for sixteen months as editor of the Christian Science Journal under Mary Baker Eddy. In 1886 she relocated to Chicago and founded the Emma Curtis Hopkins College of Christian Science. By 1887 there were twenty-one national Hopkins associations. In 1888, with a feminist self-consciousness, she founded a Theological Seminary and her graduates and ordinands, who were primarily female, served as missionaries, ministers, teachers and practitioners of personal growth and prosperity through metaphysical healing. She taught the founders of the Unity School of Christianity, Divine Science, Religious Science and Home of Truth, which earned her the title "teacher of teachers." Current original research reveals she was the founder of organized New Thought, but had gone unrecognized because she withdrew from self-promotion. Hopkins's contributions were further veiled by various New Thought polemics of the 1880s and 90s. She travelled abroad as a teacher, making New Thought an American export. Her later years were spent living semi-reclusively in New York as a mystic ministering to the "movers and shakers" of the art, drama and literary communities of the early twentieth century. She championed civil and social rights of African and Native Americans through her personal ministry, and left a legacy of numerous books and pamphlets of mysticism and religion that are still being read and taught by members of the New Thought community today. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-08, Section: A, page: 2957. / Major Professor: Leo Sandon. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76450 |
| Contributors | Harley, Gail M., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 242 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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