What religion was Louisa May Alcott?

Answer 1

Louisa May Alcott was raised in a Unitarian family, but she considered herself more of a transcendentalist with beliefs in individualism and spirituality rather than adhering to a specific religious doctrine.

Answer 2

Although she wasn't an atheist, she didn't practice any particular religion.

She wrote this in her adulthood:

"When feeling most alone, I find refuge in the Almighty Friend. If this is experiencing religion, I have done it; but I think it is only the lesson one must learn as it comes, and I am glad to know it."

Answer 3

Louisa believed in family. All of her Children's Books center around family. Her most famous book, Little Women, centers around Marmee, the heart and rock, and Mr. March, the soul.

She also believed in God as a loving Spirit. As a teenager, she believed she had a personal encounter with God; she wrote. ""A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life."

God and family gave her a central moral core which permeates her writing. Even the "blood and thunder" tales she wrote had hints of morality, certainly by pointing out the consequences of allowing passions to get out of control.

Finally, Louisa believed in women's rights. specifically, the right of a woman to chart her own destiny. One of her most famous quotes was, "I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."

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Answer 4

Her father taught her for a majority of her life.

Answer 5

No, she was not Jewish, Her father's temple school was not in a Jewish temple but in a Masonic temple.