Search for: [Abstract = "Katherine Mansfield was raised in a culture that instilled prayer as central to daily life. She recorded her first extant diary entry in her \"Book of Common Prayer\"\; those penciled notes started a lifelong dialogue with religion. However, Mansfield`s emphasis on individuality and art over tradition resulted in her ambivalence towards religion\; she was critical of a piety learned by rote and of a dogma to which one blindly adhered."]