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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790895003321

Autore

Tumber Catherine

Titolo

American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality : searching for the higher self, 1875-1915 / / Catherine Tumber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

1-299-92663-0

0-7425-9900-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

American intellectual culture

Disciplina

299/.93

Soggetti

New Thought - History

Feminism - Religious aspects - History

New Age movement - United States - History

United States Religion 19th century

United States Religion 1901-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 now-to the pursuit of women's rights and democratic renewal.