Women in new religions / Laura Vance.
Material type: TextSeries: Women in religionsPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2015]Description: x, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781479847990
- 1479847992
- 9781479816026
- 1479816027
- Family International (Organization)
- Women and religion
- Latter Day Saint women
- Seventh-Day Adventist women
- Wicca
- Family International (Organization)
- Mormonen
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Femmes et religion
- Saintes des derniers jours
- Wicca
- 11.98 other religions
- RELIGION
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- Family International (Organization)
- Latter Day Saint women
- Seventh-Day Adventist women
- Wicca
- Women and religion
- Mormonen
- Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten
- Frau
- Neue Religion
- Wiccakult
- Vrouwen
- Religion -- kvinnouppfattning -- kvinnorollen -- 1900-talet -- 2000-talet
- Kristendom
- Frikyrkor
- Mormoner
- -- magi
- Andlighet
- Sexualitet
- Religion -- attitudes to women -- female role -- 20th century -- 21st century
- Christianity
- Free churches
- Mormons
- Witches -- magic
- Spirituality
- Sexuality
- Kvinnor och religion
- Moderna religionsbildningar
- Mormoner -- genusaspekter
- Sjundedags Adventistsamfundet -- genusaspekter
- Wicca
- 200.82 23
- BL458 .V36 2015
- 11.98
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Course reserves | |
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Book on Reserve | Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia Reserve Books (Short-term Checkouts) | BL458.V36 2015 | Available | 31794003222438 | |||
Book on Reserve | Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg Reserve Books (Short-Term Checkouts) | BL458 .V36 2015 | Available | 31826003537520 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Why study women in new religions? -- Mormonism: gendering the heavens -- Seventh-day Adventism: women's changing role in an endtime religion -- The family international: sexualizing gender -- Wicca: valuing the divine feminine.
"Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women's evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions--Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca--to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement's origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements' origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women's place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.