03462nam 22004455 450 991025522240332120200630142942.03-319-61527-010.1007/978-3-319-61527-1(CKB)4100000000882788(DE-He213)978-3-319-61527-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5092601(EXLCZ)99410000000088278820171006d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFemale Leaders in New Religious Movements /edited by Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Christian Giudice1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XI, 290 p. 8 illus.) Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities3-319-61526-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.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.Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative SpiritualitiesGender identity—Religious aspectsReligion and Genderhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A8030Gender identity—Religious aspects.Religion and Gender.201.7081Bårdsen Tøllefsen Ingaedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtGiudice Christianedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910255222403321Female Leaders in New Religious Movements2261684UNINA