Women In New Religions (Women In Religions, 3)

The author looks at women's evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions-Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca-to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature.

• • Author: Laura Vance
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Mar 13, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1479816027
• • ISBN-13: 9781479816026