03140nam 2200637 450 991081977190332120230607225417.01-299-92663-00-7425-9900-0(CKB)2550000001143132(EBL)1420603(OCoLC)861537145(SSID)ssj0001152486(PQKBManifestationID)11682019(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001152486(PQKBWorkID)11147758(PQKB)10649374(MiAaPQ)EBC1420603(Au-PeEL)EBL1420603(CaPaEBR)ebr10768670(CaONFJC)MIL523914(EXLCZ)99255000000114313220020128h20022002 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality searching for the higher self, 1875-1915 /Catherine TumberLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,[2002]©20021 online resource (217 p.)American intellectual cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8476-9749-5 0-8476-9748-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.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 AuthorBased 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.New ThoughtHistoryFeminismReligious aspectsHistoryNew Age movementUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesReligion19th centuryUnited StatesReligion1901-1945New ThoughtHistory.FeminismReligious aspectsHistory.New Age movementHistory.299/.93Tumber Catherine1619463MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819771903321American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality4026179UNINA