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Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions - Couverture souple

Palmer, Susan J.

 
9780815603825: Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0815603827 ISBN 13 : 9780815603825
Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Celibate sister or devoted Hindu wife; domineering, sexually expressive lover or veiled Nubian bride in polygamy; or perhaps an asexual shaman. Such are the various roles available to women in today's new religious movements.

Moon Sisters is one of the first books to delve into feminine conversion or opportunities for leadership that women have in these contemporary communal or millenarian groups.

Working almost exclusively from interviews and first-hand data, Susan Palmer focuses on the following seven groups:
Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Rajneesh Movement
Unification Church
Institute of Applied Metaphysics
Northeast Kingdom Community Church
Raelian Movement

She questions why women join such groups, shows what innovative roles are afforded those women who choose to become members, and explains the groups' high rate of defection.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan J. Palmer is lecturer in the Religion Department at Dawson College, Quebec.

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Éditeur
Syracuse University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0815603827
ISBN 13 
9780815603825
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
287
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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