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Tumber Catherine |
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American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality : searching for the higher self, 1875-1915 / / Catherine Tumber |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2002] |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-92663-0 |
0-7425-9900-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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American intellectual culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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New Thought - History |
Feminism - Religious aspects - History |
New Age movement - United States - History |
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United States Religion 19th century |
United States Religion 1901-1945 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Gnosticism and the Erosion of Public Life; Chapter 1 The Moral Revolution of Metaphysics; Chapter 2 New Thought and the ""Cosmic Sphere of Women""; Chapter 3 The Metaphysics of Nationalism; Chapter 4 Cultural Experimentation in the New Age; Chapter 5 ""Everyday Psychics"": Gnostic Theology and the Bohemian Manners of Mass Culture; Conclusion The Empowered Self and Gnostic Spiritual Flight; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Based largely on research in popular journals, self-help manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New Thought'. Tumber pays close attention to the ways in which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth century, and questions the value of the new age movement-then and |
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