American Feminism And The Birth Of New Age Spirituality

Author : Catherine Tumber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0847697495

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American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality by Catherine Tumber Pdf

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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Karlyn Crowley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438436272

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Feminism's New Age by Karlyn Crowley Pdf

Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Crystals, Reiki, Tarot, Goddess worship—why do these New Age tokens and practices capture the imagination of so many women? How has New Age culture become even more appealing than feminism? And are the two mutually exclusive? By examining New Age practices from macrobiotics to goddess worship to Native rituals, Feminism's New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism seeks to answer these questions by examining white women's participation in this hugely popular spiritual movement. While most feminist approaches to the New Age phenomenon have simply dismissed its adherents for their politically problematic racial appropriation practices, Karyln Crowley looks honestly at the political shortcomings of New Age beliefs and practices while simultaneously reckoning with the affective, political, and cultural motivations which have prompted New Age women's individual and collective spiritualities. New Age spirituality is in fact the dynamic outgrowth of a long-standing tradition of women's social and political power expressed through religious writings, art, and public discourse, and is key to understanding contemporary women's history and religion's role in modern American culture alike. Crowley offers a new and provocative assessment of the significance of the New Age movement, seen through a feminist and critical race studies lens.

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807065072

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Living In The Lap of Goddess by Cynthia Eller Pdf

A fascinating introduction to one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the United States today. Through interviews, participant-observation, and analysis of movement literature, Cynthia Eller explores what women who worship the goddess believe; how they express those beliefs in private, in public, and in the political realm; and the place of feminist spirituality in the history of American religion.

Author : Charlene Spretnak
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0385172419

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The Politics of Women's Spirituality by Charlene Spretnak Pdf

Essays discuss goddess worship, spiritual consciousness, the relationship between politics and religion, and applications of spirituality as a political force

Author : Ellen Cole,Judith Ochshorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317764458

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Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives by Ellen Cole,Judith Ochshorn Pdf

This enlightening book examines how the feminist spirituality movement contributes to the establishment of new paradigms of mental health for women. Women’s Spirituality, Women’s Lives examines possible psychotherapeutic implications for women engaged in feminist spirituality and stimulates much-needed conversation between feminist therapists and feminist theologians/ritualists. Feminist spirituality is part of the current broad challenge to accepted ways of knowing and being. This book argues that as women tell their own stories, they create rituals that enable them to feel a sense of control over the future and to move toward a kind of authority, agency, and autonomy associated with mental health and psychological well-being. Women from many cultural backgrounds and religious perspectives have embraced alternative forms of spiritual expression, based on profound theoretical challenges to mainstream religious beliefs, ranging from calls for the radical reclamation and reconstruction of religious traditions to personal involvement in goddess worship and Wicca. Women’s Spirituality, Women’s Lives presents theoretical, conceptual, and experiential chapters that analyze the extent to which these proliferating women’s groups represent the beginnings of new norms of mental health for women. Women’s Spirituality, Women’s Lives presents a variety of voices, including Native American, Christian, Jewish, and Wiccan. Chapters are divided into three sections--Laying the Groundwork, Theoretical Challenges, and Living It Out--and explore a diverse array of topics such as: the “shouting” church and Black women’s mental health a traditionalist Native American challenge to New Age cooptation a feminist group and Jewish women’s self-identity lesbian altar-making and mental health feminist Wicca in the U.S. and Germany the martial arts and women’s mental health the use of feminist rituals in therapy and as therapy Feminist therapists and theologians, as well as other individuals interested in feminist spirituality or alternative spirituality, will find this book a fascinating exploration of the various aspects of the spirituality of women. Women’s Spirituality, Women’s Lives is also an excellent reader to expand the thinking of students in classes in women’s studies and religious studies.

Author : James R. Lewis,J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 079141213X

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Perspectives on the New Age by James R. Lewis,J. Gordon Melton Pdf

This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from essays on the convergence of New Age spirituality with women's spirituality, to an essay on how Evangelical Christians have responded to the movement. The book also examines the international impact of the New Age.

Author : Janice C. Crosby
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786408480

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Cauldron of Changes by Janice C. Crosby Pdf

This book examines the spiritual dimensions found in the literature of the fantastic (science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism) by linking such novels to actual currents within the feminist spirituality movement. Fusing popular culture studies, women's studies, and close textual analysis, the author moves beyond earlier studies that fail to address the genre's use of goddess worship, psychic phenomena, and reverence for the earth. She reveals how such attributes betoken a spiritual awakening with profound implications for contemporary feminism. Special emphasis is given to both the struggle to provide an alternative to men-centered experience and to the need to articulate ways in which feminists can achieve personal and social power. The authors studied represent a variety of American voices, and include both firmly established and newer writers such as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kim Chernin, Alice Walker, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Kennealy, Gael Baudino, Octavia Butler, Lynn Abbey, Joan Vinge, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Starhawk.

Author : Beryl Satter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520229273

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Each Mind a Kingdom by Beryl Satter Pdf

Beryl Satter examines New Thought in all its complexity, presenting along the way a captivating cast of characters. In lively and accessible prose, she introduces the people, the institutions, the texts, and the ideas that comprised the New Thought movement.

Author : Margaret Walters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805102

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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret Walters Pdf

This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

Author : Diane Sasson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253001771

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Yearning for the New Age by Diane Sasson Pdf

This is a biography of an unconventional female journalist, editor, author, and lecturer in late nineteenth-century America who became involved in progressive women's causes, vegetarianism, and Theosophy.

Author : Gloria T. Hull,Akasha Gloria Hull
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 089281943X

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Soul Talk by Gloria T. Hull,Akasha Gloria Hull Pdf

In the last few decades African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force, fashioning a unique way to connect with the divine. In "Soul Talk", Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice.

Author : Ann Braude
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D00175983N

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Radical Spirits by Ann Braude Pdf

..". Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement." -- Jon Butler "Radical Spirits is a vitally important book... [that] has... influenced a generation of young scholars." -- Marie Griffith In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women's rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women's history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women's history in general and the women's rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students.

Author : Monica Sjöö
Publisher : Women's Press (UK)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015025229587

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New Age and Armageddon by Monica Sjöö Pdf

Author : S. Zohreh Kermani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814745144

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Pagan Family Values by S. Zohreh Kermani Pdf

For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second‑generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermani explores the ways in which North American Pagan families pass on their beliefs to their children, and how the effort to socialize children influences this new religious movement. The first ethnographic study of the everyday lives of contemporary Pagan families, this volume brings their experiences into conversation with contemporary issues in American religion. Through formal interviews with Pagan families, participant observation at various pagan events, and data collected via online surveys, Kermani traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, that will remain with their children throughout their lives, regardless of these children's ultimate religious identifications. Pagan parents tend to construct an idealized, magical childhood for their children that mirrors their ideal childhoods. The socialization of children thus becomes a means by which adults construct and make meaningful their own identities as Pagans. Kermani’s meticulous fieldwork and clear, engaging writing provide an illuminating look at parenting and religious expression in Pagan households and at how new religions pass on their beliefs to a new generation.

Author : Galen Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192676030

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The Spiritual Turn by Galen Watts Pdf

Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies? Secularization theorists argue that spirituality lacks institutional support and a shared tradition, thereby evincing religious decline. Meanwhile, critical commentators contend that the spiritual turn embodies all of the ills of post-1960s liberal democracies. This book challenges these popular misconceptions. Combining cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy, and drawing from first-hand interview and fieldwork data, along with discourse analysis of best-selling books, it shows that rather than reflecting religious decline, the spiritual turn marks the rise of an enduring cultural structure in Western modernity-the religion of the heart. Tracing the religion of the heart to the 1960s, The Spiritual Turn illuminates its elective affinities with the romantic liberal social imaginary that crystallized in popular consciousness during this era, and transformed the institutional spheres of Western liberal democracies, eventually giving birth to a new social order-romantic liberal modernity. Then, inspired by the Durkheimian tradition, it presents case studies of three sites where the religion of the heart is institutionalized in a specific discursive form-a Twelve Step group, a neo-Pentecostal church, and a Toastmasters public speaking club. The book concludes that while critics may have reason to disparage both spirituality and romantic liberal modernity more generally, the reality is far more complex than their criticisms suggest-and more importantly, far less hopeless.