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Women in new religions / Laura Vance.
LIBRA BL458 .V36 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, Laura L., author.
- Series:
- Women in religions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and religion.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Seventh-Day Adventist women.
- Family International (Organization).
- Wicca.
- Physical Description:
- x, 189 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women's evolving place in the birth and development of new religions. It focuses on four disparate new religions-Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca-to illuminate their ideas about gender and socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals, and it offers broader ideas about the interactions of religion and gender, which are often brought into stark relief in new religions. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. As new religions emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and at the same time assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer opportunities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities 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. 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479847990
- 1479847992
- 9781479816026
- 1479816027
- OCLC:
- 893452350
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