TY - BOOK ID - 78493225 TI - Women in new religions PY - 2015 SN - 1479841498 1479822493 9781479822492 9781479847990 1479847992 9781479816026 1479816027 9781479841493 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Women and religion. KW - Mormon women. KW - Seventh-Day Adventist women. KW - Wicca. KW - Wica KW - Neopaganism KW - Witchcraft KW - Christian women KW - Women, Mormon KW - Religion and women KW - Women in religion KW - Religion KW - Sexism in religion KW - Family International (Organization) KW - Family (Organization) KW - Wiccakult KW - Frau. KW - Neue Religion KW - Frau KW - Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten KW - Mormonen KW - Mormon Church KW - Heilige der Letzten Tage KW - HLT-Kirche KW - Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints KW - Latter Day Saints KW - Église de Jésus Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours KW - Church of Latter Day Saints KW - Church of Christ KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KW - LDS Church KW - Religionsgemeinschaft KW - Salt Lake City, Utah KW - 1830 KW - -Family (Organization) KW - Mormon women KW - Latter Day Saint women. KW - women in new religions KW - Mormonism KW - Seventh-day Adventism KW - endtime religion KW - The Family International KW - sexualizing gender KW - Wicca KW - the Divine Feminine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493225 AB - Women in New Religions offers an engaging look 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. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly 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. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity. Additional Resources ER -