| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 293 pages) : illustrations |
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Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 119th series, I |
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Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 119th ser., 1.
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| Contents |
The undomesticated occult -- The mahatmas in clubland: manliness and scientific spirituality -- "A deficiency of the male element": gendering spiritual experience -- "Buggery and humbuggery": sex, magic, and occult authority -- Occult body politics -- The divine hermaphrodite and the female messiah: feminism and sprirituality in the 1890s -- A new age for women: suffrage and the sacred -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood |
| Summary |
Divine Feminine is the first full-length study of the relationship between alternative or esoteric spirituality and the feminist movement in England. Historian Joy Dixon examines the Theosophical Society's claims that women and the East were the repositories of spiritual forces which English men had forfeited in their scramble for material and imperial power. Theosophists produced arguments that became key tools in many feminist campaigns. Many women of the Theosophical Society became suffragists to promote the spiritualizing of politics, attempting to create a political role for women as a way to "sacralize the public sphere." Dixon also shows that theosophy provides much of the framework and the vocabulary for today's New Age movement. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Religionsvidenskab |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index |
| Notes |
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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Theosophical Society (Great Britain) -- History
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Theosophical Society (Great Britain) |
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Theosophical Society (Grande-Bretagne) |
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Theosophical Society (Great Britain) -- History of doctrines
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Feminism -- England -- History
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RELIGION -- Theosophy.
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Feminism
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Theosofie.
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Feminisme.
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Histoire.
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Féminisme.
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Mouvement féministe.
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Spiritualité
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Théosophie.
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England
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Angleterre.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0801875307 |
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9780801875304 |
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0801864992 |
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9780801864995 |
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