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1 online resource (xii, 203 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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American intellectual culture
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American intellectual culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Gnosticism and the Erosion of Public Life -- Moral Revolution of Metaphysics -- Rebirth of Gnosticism in Modern Times -- 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 -- 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" -- "Theosophical Ensoulment" of Nationalism -- "Diseased and Discordant Elements" of the Body Politic -- Cultural Experimentation in the New Age -- Gnostic Syncretism and Its Dearth of Critics -- Syncretic "Cultus" of Greenacre: "A Peaceful Thought Colony" -- "Everyday Psychics": Gnostic Theology and the Bohemian Manners of Mass Culture -- "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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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New Thought -- History.
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New Thought. |
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History. |
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- History.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects. |
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New Age movement -- United States -- History.
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New Age movement. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Religion -- 19th century.
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Religion. |
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19th century |
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United States -- Religion -- 1901-1945.
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1901-1945 |
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1800-1945 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Tumber, Catherine. American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality 0847697487 (DLC) 2002001250 (OCoLC)48944407 |
| ISBN |
9780742599000 (electronic book) |
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0742599000 (electronic book) |
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0847697487 |
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9780847697489 |
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0847697495 |
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9780847697496 |
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