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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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61527-1 |
Table of 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’ Subversive Interventions in the Religious Field in Ethiopia
- 11. Female Leadership in Mudzimu Unoera Sect of Guruve, Zimbabwe
- 12. The Politics of the Goddess: Radical/Cultural Feminist Influences of Starhawk's Feminist Witchcraft
- 13. The Chalice and the Rainbow: Conflicts Between Women’s Spirituality and Transgender Rights in US Wicca in the 2010s.