Catherine Tumber

American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality

Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• American Intellectual Culture
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780847697496
• ISBN-10: 0847697495
• Artikelnr.: 21245048

Autorenporträt

Catherine Tumber is a staff editor for the Boston Phoenix. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Gnosticism and the Erosion of Public Life Chapter 2
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 Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 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 Chapter 5 Cultural
Experimentation in the New Age: Gnostic Syncretism and Its Dearth of
Critics; The Syncretic Cultus of Greenacre: A Peaceful Thought Colony
Chapter 6 Everyday Physics: 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 Chapter 7
Conclusion: The Empowered Self and Gnostic Spiritual Flight