Abstract In this article, I examine Naomi Mitchison’s contact with The Rationalist Press Association, an organized secularist movement founded in the late-nineteenth century to challenge the dogma and authority of religion and to promote the popular understanding of science. I argue that the rightwards turn in the R.P.A. in the 1930s created a space on the left for a renegotiation of the relationship between Rationalism and religion, or what Mitchison herself called: ‘a possible bridge between rational and on the whole anti-religious moral concepts, such as those of mine, and Christian ethics’. This article looks at Mitchison’s efforts towards building this bridge primarily in her non-fiction but also in her historical novel about the persecution of the Christians in Nero’s Rome, The Blood of the Martyrs.

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“我们运动的未来”：在 Naomi Mitchison 1930 年代的写作中弥合理性主义与基督教伦理之间的鸿沟

摘要 在本文中，我考察了 Naomi Mitchison 与理性主义新闻协会的接触，后者是一个成立于 19 世纪后期的有组织的世俗主义运动，旨在挑战宗教的教条和权威，并促进大众对科学的理解。我认为 1930 年代 RPA 的右转为左翼重新谈判理性主义与宗教之间的关系创造了空间，或者米奇森自己所说的：“理性与整个反宗教道德概念之间的可能桥梁，比如我的那些，以及基督教伦理”。本文着眼于米奇森在她的非小说类小说以及她关于尼禄的罗马迫害基督徒的历史小说《殉道者之血》中为建立这座桥梁所做的努力。