American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality : searching for the higher self, 1875-1915 / Catherine Tumber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tumber, Catherine.

Series:

American intellectual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Thought--History.

New Thought.

Feminism--Religious aspects--History.

Feminism.

New Age movement--United States--History.

New Age movement.

United States--Religion--19th century.

United States.

United States--Religion--1901-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Gnosticism and the Erosion of Public Life; Chapter 1 The Moral Revolution of Metaphysics; Chapter 2 New Thought and the ""Cosmic Sphere of Women""; Chapter 3 The Metaphysics of Nationalism; Chapter 4 Cultural Experimentation in the New Age; Chapter 5 ""Everyday Psychics"": Gnostic Theology and the Bohemian Manners of Mass Culture; Conclusion The Empowered Self and Gnostic Spiritual Flight; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-21957-6

1-299-92663-0

0-7425-9900-0

OCLC:

861537145