LEADER 03140nam 2200637 450 001 9910819771903321 005 20230607225417.0 010 $a1-299-92663-0 010 $a0-7425-9900-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001143132 035 $a(EBL)1420603 035 $a(OCoLC)861537145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001152486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11682019 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001152486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11147758 035 $a(PQKB)10649374 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1420603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1420603 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10768670 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523914 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001143132 100 $a20020128h20022002 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality $esearching for the higher self, 1875-1915 /$fCatherine Tumber 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d[2002] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 0$aAmerican intellectual culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8476-9749-5 311 $a0-8476-9748-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index. 327 $aAmerican 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 330 $aBased 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. 606 $aNew Thought$xHistory 606 $aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xHistory 606 $aNew Age movement$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xReligion$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xReligion$y1901-1945 615 0$aNew Thought$xHistory. 615 0$aFeminism$xReligious aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aNew Age movement$xHistory. 676 $a299/.93 700 $aTumber$b Catherine$01619463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819771903321 996 $aAmerican feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality$94026179 997 $aUNINA