Female Leaders in New Religious Movements

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319615262
• ISBN13: 9783319615264
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"