Female Leaders In New Religious Movements
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Female Leaders In New Religious Movements
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Author : Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-06
Female Leaders In New Religious Movements written by Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-06 with Religion categories.
In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women’s religious leadership. New Religious Movements have been supportive of women taking roles of leadership for a long time. Authors of this book examine issues of gender and female leadership from diverse theoretical and methodological standpoints. The book covers a broad range of groups both with regard to time and place, covering Paganism, Hindu guru groups, Christian organizations, esoteric/ mystical movements, African churches, and a Japanese NRM. The common focal point is the powerful, prophetic, charismatic women who have founded and/ or led New Religious Movements.
Women In New Religions
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Author : Elizabeth Puttick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Women In New Religions written by Elizabeth Puttick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Cults categories.
It is often believed that women are oppressed and exploited by the charismatic male leaders of new religious movements. This book exposes the abuse of power within some movements, but also demonstrates that there is more evidence of fulfilment and empowerment. Most members of NRMs are intelligent and well educated, and new religions often provide value systems, emotional and spiritual experience lacking elsewhere in society. This book explores the social and spiritual issues, tracing developments from the 1960s counter-culture to 1990s Goddess spirituality, and culminating in a new typology of religious needs and values.
Women In New Religions
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Author : Laura Vance
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-03-13
Women In New Religions written by Laura Vance and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-13 with Religion categories.
An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity.
Moon Sisters Krishna Mothers Rajneesh Lovers
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Author : Susan J. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1994
Moon Sisters Krishna Mothers Rajneesh Lovers written by Susan J. Palmer and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Cults categories.
A study of women's roles and alternative patterns of sexuality in seven contemporary communal and millenarian movements. Based almost exclusively on interviews and first-hand data, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in communal and utopian studies, American religious history, and new religious movements. 10 illustrations. Index.
The Cambridge Companion To New Religious Movements
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Author : Olav Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-30
The Cambridge Companion To New Religious Movements written by Olav Hammer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Religion categories.
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
Voices Of The Angels
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Author : Sanna Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-03
Voices Of The Angels written by Sanna Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with categories.
New Thought as a religious movement was "made in America". The New Thought writers at the turn of the 20th century were predominantly women, and were students of one of the well known founders of the New Thought religious movement, Emma Curtis Hopkins. This New Thought Reader creates a literary home for nine respected New Thought women leaders of the times who were popular writers, teachers, and healers. Elizabeth Towne, Fannie James, Nona Brooks, Malinda Cramer, Annie Rix Militz, Dr. Emilie Cady, Ursula Gestefeld, Florence Scovel Shinn, and the New Thought poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox are represented herein. The New Thought Movement in its beginnings was a womens movement. These women were Voices of the Angels heralding in a new era, active and supportive of the Suffragettes, the abolition of slavery, and social changes that included humane child labor laws. Their writings are relevant to today, and are an inspiration to women and men alike.
Women In New Religions
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Author : Elizabeth Puttick
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1997
Women In New Religions written by Elizabeth Puttick and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
It is often believed that women are oppressed and exploited by the charismatic male leaders of new religious movements. This book exposes the abuse of power within some movements, but also demonstrates that there is more evidence of fulfillment and empowerment. This book explores the social and spiritual issues tracing developments from the 1960s counter-culture to 1990s Goddess spirituality and culminates in a new typology of religious needs and values.
Teaching New Religious Movements
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Author : David G. Bromley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-25
Teaching New Religious Movements written by David G. Bromley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-25 with Social Science categories.
Since its inception around 1970, the study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) has evolved into an established multidisciplinary field. At the same time, both the movements and the scholars who study them have been the subjects of intense controversy. In this volume, a group of senior NRM scholars who have been instrumental in the development of the field will offer pivotal essays that present the basics of NRM scholarship along with guidance for teachers on classroom use. The book is organized topically around subjects that are both central to the study of NRMs and likely to be useful to non-specialists. Part I contains examinations of the definitional boundaries of the area of study, varying disciplinary perspectives on NRMs, unique methodological/ethical problems encountered in the study of NRMs, and the controversies that have confronted scholars studying NRMs and the movements themselves. Part II examines a series of topics central to teaching about NRMs: the larger sociocultural significance of the movements, their distinctive symbolic and organizational features, the interrelated processes of joining and leaving NRMs, the organization of gender roles in NRMs, media and popular culture portrayals of the movements, the occurrence of corruption and abuse within movements, and violence by and against NRMs. Part III provides informational resources for teaching about NRMs, which are particularly important in a field where knowing the biases of sources is crucial. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume provides comprehensive, accessible information and perspectives on NRMs. It is an invaluable guide for instructors navigating this scholarly minefield.
Women S Leadership In Marginal Religions
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Author : Catherine Wessinger
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1993
Women S Leadership In Marginal Religions written by Catherine Wessinger and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Women's leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science / Ann Braude -- The feminism of "Universal Brotherhood," women in the Theosophical Movement / Robert Ellwood and Catherine Wessinger -- Emma Curtis Hopkins, a feminist of the 1880's and mother of new thought / J. Gordon Melton -- Myrtle Fillmore and her daughters, an observation and analysis of the role of women in Unity / Dell deChant -- Woman guru, woman roshi, the legitimation of female religious leadership in Hindu and Buddhist groups in America / Catherine Wessinger. -- Part 3. Contemporary women as creators of religion: Ritual validations of clergywomen's authority in the African American Spiritual churches of New Orleans / David C. Estes --. - Twentieth-century women's religion as seen in the feminist spirit.
Encyclopedia Of New Religious Movements
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Author : Peter Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03
Encyclopedia Of New Religious Movements written by Peter Clarke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03 with Education categories.
An essential companion to both research and scholarship upon which undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers can all be expected to draw.