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1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) |
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American intellectual culture |
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American intellectual culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Gnosticism and the Erosion of Public Life -- The Moral Revolution of Metaphysics -- The Rebirth of Gnosticism in Modern Times -- The Public Crisis of Liberal Religion -- Women and "Fractured" Appearances -- Gnosticism and the Reform Impulse -- New Thought and the "Cosmic Sphere of Women" Emma Curtis Hopkins and Women's Alienation -- Ursula Gestefeld, Therapeutic Space, and the Claims of "Duty" -- Lilian Whiting's Muddle of Manners: Taste, "Appearances," and the A-Cosmic Self -- The Metaphysics of Nationalism -- Abby Morton Diaz, the Emersonian Inheritance, and the Cult of Oneness -- Edward Bellamy's "Passion for the Nude in Things of Thought" -- The "Theosophical Ensoulment" of Nationalism -- The "Diseased and Discordant Elements" of the Body Politic -- Cultural Experimentation in the New Age -- Gnostic Syncretism and Its Dearth of Critics -- The Syncretic "Cultus" of Greenacre: "A Peaceful Thought Colony" -- "Everyday Psychics": Gnostic Theology and the Bohemian Manners of Mass Culture -- The "Stilted" Esthetics of New Thought -- "Feminine Bohemianism" -- From the Higher Self to the "Universal I WANT" -- Conclusion: The Empowered Self and Gnostic Spiritual Flight |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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New Thought -- History
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- History
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New Age movement -- United States -- History
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects
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New Age movement
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New Thought
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Religion
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Feminismus
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Spiritualität
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Geschichte 1875-1915.
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United States -- Religion -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140500
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United States -- Religion -- 1901-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140501
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780742599000 |
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0742599000 |
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