Conclusion: A New Religion?

This chapter provides a summary of the deeply ambivalent responses that Woolf takes towards Christian culture, before moving on to provide a nuanced account of Woolf’s views and how they sit with Christian ideas. It then argues that a useful way of understanding Woolf’s complex response to Christianity is to see it as a form of feminist theology: just as she is widely recognised for having paved the way for the concerns and arguments of second-wave feminism, so she also anticipated more radical approaches to religion.