Overview
- Includes a global scope of female leaders, both well known and less familiar
- Pays close attention to the social and historical context of the subjects discussed
- Fills the void of scholarship on female (or male-female joint) leadership in new religions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities (PSNRAS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women’s religious leadership. New Religious Movements have been supportive of women taking roles of leadership for a long time. Authors of this book examine issues of gender and female leadership from diverse theoretical and methodological standpoints. The book covers a broad range of groups both with regard to time and place, covering Paganism, Hindu guru groups, Christian organizations, esoteric/ mystical movements, African churches, and a Japanese NRM. The common focal point is the powerful, prophetic, charismatic women who have founded and/ or led New Religious Movements.
Reviews
“This book is a seriously important opening statement to what will hopefully continue as a lengthy and well-informed conversation for both participants of new religions and scholars in religious studies alike. This volume deserves a wide readership and is highly recommended.” (Carole M. Cusack, Nova Religio, Vol. 22 (4), May, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published several articles/book chapters on gender, NRMs, and the new age movement. She has co-edited anthologies such as Nordic New Religions (2015) and, The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (2016).
Christian Giudice is a scholar of Western esotericism and New Religious Movements at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published several articles and book chapters on the history of Occultism and New Religious Movements and has also focused his research within the field of Traditionalism and Occultism. He is the editor of the newsletter for the European Society for the Study of Western esotericism and chair of the network WEAVE: Western Esotericism and the Visual Arts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Leaders in New Religious Movements
Editors: Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Christian Giudice
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61527-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61526-4Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87102-8Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61527-1Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2665
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 290
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Gender