Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions

Marginal religions in the United States have been supportive of women taking leadership roles at least since the nineteenth century. in Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions, historians, folklorists, and theologians explore what factors within these groups support women's religious leadership. The religions examined are Shakerism, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, Christian Science, the Theosophical movement, New Thought, Unity, Hindu, and Buddhist groups, African-American Spiritual churches in New Orleans, the feminist spirituality movement, the Women-Church movement among Roman Catholic women, and Mormonism.

Introduction: Going Beyond and Retaining Charisma: Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions	p. 1
Women in the Spirit
"In the Line of the Female": Shakerism and Feminism	p. 23
Not So Different a Story After All: Pentecostal Women in the Pulpit	p. 41
Women in the Metaphysical Movement
The Perils of Passivity: Women's Leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science	p. 55
The Feminism of "Universal Brotherhood": Women in the Theosophical Movement	p. 68
Emma Curtis Hopkins: A Feminist of the 1880s and Mother of New Thought	p. 88
Myrtle Fillmore and Her Daughters: An Observation and Analysis of the Role of Women in Unity	p. 102
Woman Guru, Woman Roshi: The Legitimation of Female Religious Leadership in Hindu and Buddhist Groups in America	p. 125
Contemporary Women as Creators of Religion
Ritual Validations of Clergywomen's Authority in the African American Spiritual Churches of New Orleans	p. 149
Twentieth-Century Women's Religion as Seen in the Feminist Spirituality Movement	p. 172
The Women-Church Movement in Contemporary Christianity	p. 196
Widening the Banks of the Mainstream: Women Constructing Theologies	p. 211
Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 237
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