Arthur Conan Doyle’s View of Religion as Seen by the Composers Mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

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  • ホームズ物語言及作曲家に見るドイルの宗教観
  • ホームズ モノガタリ ゲンキュウ サッキョクカ ニ ミル ドイル ノ シュウキョウカン

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Arthur Conan Doyle abandoned Catholicism early on and later devoted himself to spiritualism. Looking at the composers mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories, many are Protestants, four of whom, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, and Wagner, wrote music using Martin Luther’s Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott. He also portrays the Huguenots who, after being chased out of France, resettled in the United States in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents. Doyle had a favorable view of Protestantism, especially the Lutheran and Huguenot varieties.

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  • Gakuen

    Gakuen (964), 1-11, 2021-02-01

    昭和女子大学近代文化研究所

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