Women In New Religions
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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.
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. Additional Resources
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.
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 As Teachers And Disciples In Traditional And New Religions
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Author : Elizabeth Puttick
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1993
Women As Teachers And Disciples In Traditional And New Religions written by Elizabeth Puttick and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.
This collection of essays comprises a multi-faceted examination of women's roles within religion: on the one hand as disciple, student, medium; an on the other hand as teacher, leader and priestess.
Sexuality And New Religious Movements
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Author : J. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Sexuality And New Religious Movements written by J. Lewis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Social Science categories.
Issues relating to sexuality, eroticism and gender are often connected to religious beliefs and practices, but also to prejudices against and fear of religious groups that adopt alternative approaches to sexuality. This is especially apparent in connection with new religious movements, which many times find themselves accused by the media and anti-cultists of promoting illicit and controversial views on sexuality. This anthology aims to critically investigate the role of sexuality in a number of new religious movements, including Mormon fundamentalist communities, the Branch Davidians, the Osho movement, the Raël movement, contemporary Wicca and Satanism, in addition to the teachings of Adidam and Gurdjieff on sexuality.
Women In The World S Religions Past And Present
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Author : Ursula King
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1987
Women In The World S Religions Past And Present written by Ursula King and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Religion categories.
This major collection of essays makes a new contribution to the role and image of women in the different world religions. Many new perceptions are revealed in this provocative collection, including insights into women in African traditional religions, in evangelical Christianity, and in new religious movements, which focus on some of todays fundamental questions: Are women hindered or encouraged to give full expression to their religious experience? How far do the different religious traditions draw on feminine symbols in speaking about ultimate reality? To what extent do women take part in ritual and religious practices or hold positions of authority? What is the actual religious experience of women, and how do women choose to follow a religious life?
Women And Religious Traditions
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Author : Leona May Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Women And Religious Traditions written by Leona May Anderson and has been published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This text looks at women and religion in a wide range of international contexts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Aboriginal religions, and new religions that focus on the Goddess. Each chapter is organized around common themes and two case studies of experiences of religious women in North America are included.
Religion And Gender
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Author : Ursula King
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1995
Religion And Gender written by Ursula King and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
Theory Of Women In Religions
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Author : Catherine Wessinger
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Theory Of Women In Religions written by Catherine Wessinger and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Religion categories.
An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women are not ordained as priests. In areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Taliban occupation girls and women students and their teachers risk their lives to go to school. And in Sri Lanka, fully ordained Buddhist nuns are denied the government identity cards that recognize them as citizens. Is it possible to create families, societies, and religions in which women and men are equal? And if so, what are the factors that promote equality? Theory of Women in Religions offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day. Catherine Wessinger integrates data and theories from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, gender studies, and psychology into a concise history of religions introduction to the complex relationship between gender and religion. She argues that socio-economic factors that support specific gender roles, in conjunction with religious norms and ideals, have created a gendered division of labor that both directly and indirectly reinforces gender inequality. Yet she also highlights how as the socio-economic situation is changing religion is being utilized to support the transition toward women’s equality, noting the ways in which many religious representations of gender change over time.