American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 203 halaman
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!
 

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The Moral Revolution of Metaphysics
19
New Thought and the Cosmic Sphere of Women
43
The Metaphysics of Nationalism
69
Cultural Experimentation in the New Age
109
Everyday Psychics Gnostic Theology and the Bohemian Manners of Mass Culture
139
The Empowered Self and Gnostic Spiritual Flight
169
Bibliography
177
Index
191
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Halaman 14 - Metaphysical Healing," or other forms of spiritual philosophy, who are so numerous among us to-day. The ideas here are healthyminded and optimistic; and it is quite obvious that a wave of religious activity, analogous in some respects to the spread of early Christianity, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism, is passing over our American world.
Halaman 16 - Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966). On pollution beliefs in New Guinea, see Shirley Lindenbaum, "A Wife is the Hand of Man," in Man and Woman in the New Guinea Highlands, ed.

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Catherine Tumber is a staff editor for the Boston Phoenix. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester.

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