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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tumber, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
Colección:American intellectual culture.
Temas:
1800-1945
New Thought > History.
Feminism > Religious aspects > History.
New Age movement > United States > History.
New Thought > Histoire.
Féminisme > Aspect religieux > Histoire.
Nouvel Âge (Mouvement) > États-Unis > Histoire.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Feminism > Religious aspects
New Age movement
New Thought
Religion
Feminismus
Spiritualität
Geschichte 1875-1915.
United States > Religion > 19th century.
United States > Religion > 1901-1945.
États-Unis > Religion > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Religion > 1901-1945.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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