Female Leaders in New Religious Movements /
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 f...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Cham : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61527-1 |
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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 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XI, 290 pages): illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9783319615271 |
Index Number: | BL65 |
CLC: | B920 |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Women and NRMs: Location and Identity -- 3. God s Messenger: Ellen G. White -- 4. Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Gender, Sexuality and the Divine Feminine -- 5. Where there is true love, anything is effortless : Mata Amritanandamayi: Divine Mother and Religious Entrepreneur -- 6. Mother and Father of Oneness: an Intersectional Reading of the Shared Leadership of Amma and Bhagavan -- 7. I, Jehovah : Mary Ann de Grimston and the Process Church of the Final Judgment -- 8. Olivia Robertson: Priestess of Isis -- 9. The Power of Writing in Deguchi Nao s Ofudesaki -- 10. Females Sub |