Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions write by Catherine Wessinger. This book was released on 1993. Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Female Leaders in New Religious Movements
Female Leaders in New Religious Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Leaders in New Religious Movements write by Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen. This book was released on 2017-10-06. Female Leaders in New Religious Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Religion and Leadership
Women, Religion and Leadership - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Religion and Leadership write by Barbara Denison. This book was released on 2017-07-28. Women, Religion and Leadership available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leadership from specifically chosen religious female leaders and going on to examine the legacies they leave behind. This book seeks to identify and analyse the gendered issues underlying the structural lack of recognition for women within the church and to examine the culturally constructed narratives related to these women for evidence of their leadership despite the exclusionary rules applied to force their submission to the dominating forces. Finally this book intends to draw out of these women’s stories the various lessons of leadership that invoke current relevancies among prevailing leadership paradigms. Written by experts from disciplines as varied as leadership and communication studies to sociology, and history to medievalist and English scholars; Women, Religion and Leadership will prove key reading for scholars, academics and researchers is these and related disciplines.
Women and Religious Marginality
Women and Religious Marginality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Religious Marginality write by Catherine Wessinger. This book was released on 1990. Women and Religious Marginality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Female Piety in Puritan New England
Female Piety in Puritan New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Piety in Puritan New England write by Amanda Porterfield. This book was released on 1992. Female Piety in Puritan New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This treatise documents the claim that, for Puritan men and women alike, the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. It argues that these images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals and established the standards against which the moral character of real women was measured.
