TY - BOOK ID - 16244966 TI - Female Leaders in New Religious Movements AU - Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Inga. AU - Giudice, Christian. PY - 2017 SN - 3319615270 3319615262 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Cults. KW - Women religious leaders. KW - Religious leaders KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Religions KW - Sects KW - Gender identity-Religious aspect. KW - Religion and Gender. KW - Gender identity—Religious aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16244966 AB - 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. ER -