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The Public Universal Friend
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ISBN: 1501701444 1501701452 9780801454134 0801454131 9781501701450 9781501701443 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ithaca

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Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visionaries and prophets established new religious sects throughout the emerging nation. Among the most influential and controversial of these figures was Jemima Wilkinson. Born in 1752 and raised in a Quaker household in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Wilkinson began her ministry dramatically in 1776 when, in the midst of an illness, she announced her own death and reincarnation as the Public Universal Friend, a heaven-sent prophet who was neither female nor male. In The Public Universal Friend, Paul B. Moyer tells the story of Wilkinson and her remarkable church, the Society of Universal Friends. Wilkinson's message was a simple one: humankind stood on the brink of the Apocalypse, but salvation was available to all who accepted God's grace and the authority of his prophet: the Public Universal Friend. Wilkinson preached widely in southern New England and Pennsylvania, attracted hundreds of devoted followers, formed them into a religious sect, and, by the late 1780's, had led her converts to the backcountry of the newly formed United States, where they established a religious community near present-day Penn Yan, New York. Even this remote spot did not provide a safe haven for Wilkinson and her followers as they awaited the Millennium. Disputes from within and without dogged the sect, and many disciples drifted away or turned against the Friend. After Wilkinson's "second" and final death in 1819, the Society rapidly fell into decline and, by the mid-nineteenth century, ceased to exist. The prophet's ministry spanned the American Revolution and shaped the nation's religious landscape during the unquiet interlude between the first and second Great Awakenings. The life of the Public Universal Friend and the Friend's church offer important insights about changes to religious life, gender, and society during this formative period. The Public Universal Friend is an elegantly written and comprehensive history of an important and too little known figure in the spiritual landscape of early America.


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Midden in de cirkel : vrouwen en leiderschap in diverse spirituele tradities
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ISBN: 9085280265 9789085280262 Year: 2004 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

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'Midden in de cirkel' is een initiatief van het Centrum voor Vrouwenstudies van de Faculteit Godgeleerdheid van de KULeuven. Het boek bevat interviews met dertien vrouwen uit verschillende religieuze en spirituele tradities. Telkens gaat het om vrouwen die in hun religie, hun kerk of hun spirituele gemeenschap een -al dan niet officiële- leidinggevende positie innemen. Aan hen werden onder meer de volgende vragen gesteld: hoe kijken zij aan tegen 'religieus leiderschap'? Ontwikkelen ze als vrouw een eigen visie op leidinggeven en waarin onderscheidt vrouwelijk leiderschap zich dan van het mannelijke model? Hoe reageert de religieuze of spirituele achterban op dit vrouwelijke leiderschap? Welke hinderpalen ondervinden zij in een leidinggevende positie? We krijgen antwoord op deze vragen vanuit diverse strekkingen van het christendom, het jodendom, de islam, boeddhisme en hindoeïsme. De interviews worden voorafgegaan door een inleidende tekst over vrouwen, religie en macht, waarin deze verschillende religies eveneens aan bod komen.


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Female Leaders in New Religious Movements
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ISBN: 3319615270 3319615262 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women’s religious leadership. New Religious Movements have been supportive of women taking roles of leadership for a long time. Authors of this book examine issues of gender and female leadership from diverse theoretical and methodological standpoints. The book covers a broad range of groups both with regard to time and place, covering Paganism, Hindu guru groups, Christian organizations, esoteric/ mystical movements, African churches, and a Japanese NRM. The common focal point is the powerful, prophetic, charismatic women who have founded and/ or led New Religious Movements.


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Love and liberation
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ISBN: 0231147694 0231519532 9780231519533 9780231147682 0231147686 9780231147699 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Künzang Dekyong Chönyi Wangmo (also called Dewé Dorjé, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary and guru to many lamas, monastics, and laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet, but also for her candor. This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with land deities, dakinis, bodhisattvas, lamas, and fellow religious community members whose voices interweave with her own to narrate what is a story of both love between Sera Khandro and her guru, Drimé Özer, and spiritual liberation. Sarah H. Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drimé Özer as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion.


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Translating Christ in the Middle Ages : gender, authorship, and the visionary text
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ISBN: 9780268202200 0268202206 9780268202194 0268202192 9780268202187 9780268202217 Year: 2022 Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame press,

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"From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word, requiring multiple transformations: divine speech into human language, aural event into textual artifact, visionary experience into linguistic record, and individual encounter into communal repetition. This ambitious study shows how women's visionary texts form an underexamined literary tradition within medieval religious culture, one which became both widespread and influential, reconfiguing traditional hierarchies and positions of spiritual power for female authors and readers in ways that reverberated throughout late-medieval literary and religious cultures. In translating their visionary conversations with Christ into vernacular text, medieval women turned themselves into authors and devotional guides, and formed their readers into textual communities shaped by gendered visionary experiences and spoken imitatio Christi. Comparing texts in Latin, Dutch, French, and English, this work explores how women's visionary translation of Christ's speech initiated larger transformations of gendered authorship and religious authority within medieval culture. The book will interest scholars in different linguistic and religious traditions in medieval studies, history, religious studies, and women's and gender studies."

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Jesus Christ / Apparitions and miracles / History / To 1500 --- Visions / History / To 1500 --- Women / Religious life / History / To 1500 --- Visions --- Women --- Visionaries --- Women religious leaders --- 248-055.2 --- 248-055.2 Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Religious leaders --- Persons --- Apparitions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- History --- Authorship --- Religious life --- Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- Apparitions and miracles --- Christian dogmatics --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- Visions -- Europe --- Littérature chrétienne médiévale --- Femmes et littérature -- Europe --- Femmes mystiques -- Europe --- Mystique

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