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ISBN-10: 1479816027

ISBN-13: 9781479816026

ISBN-10: 1479847992

ISBN-13: 9781479847990

Women in New Religions deals an enticing examine women’s evolving position within the beginning and improvement of recent non secular activities. It specializes in 4 disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The family members foreign, and Wicca—to light up their implications for gender socialization, non secular management and participation, sexuality, and kin ideals.

Religious worldviews and gender roles engage with each other in advanced methods. this can be very true inside of new religions, which regularly set roles for ladies in ways in which aid the routine to outline their limitations in terms of the broader society. As new spiritual hobbies emerge, they generally place themselves against dominant society and concomitantly assert replacement roles for girls. yet those religions are usually not monolithic: instead of defining gender in inflexible and repressive phrases, new religions occasionally supply percentages to ladies that aren't another way on hand. Vance lines expectancies for ladies because the religions emerge, and transformation of probabilities and duties for girls as they mature.

Weaving concept with exam of every movement’s origins, background, and ideology and practices, this article contextualizes and situates beliefs for ladies in new religions. The publication deals an obtainable research of the advanced components that impact gender ideology and its evolution in new non secular hobbies, together with the hobbies’ origins, charismatic management and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It exhibits how religions form definitions of women’s position in a fashion that's proficient by means of reaction to social context, crew obstacles, and identification.

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He was told that his desire to use the plates for his own monetary gain prevented him from being able to take them. He would have to wait. Mormonism’s detractors—and, more recently, some Latter-day Saint (LDS) historians—have attended to Smith’s time spent searching for buried treasure around the same time that he was led to the gold plates. Court records indicate that Smith was hired to search for buried treasure in western New York, where Native American burials, containing what would have been perceived as treasure, dotted the landscape.

Law was an idealist who believed in Smith’s message and thought that Smith could be corrected and the church set back on its correct path. Unable to elicit any acknowledgment of wrongdoing from Smith, Law printed an editorial in the first (and only) issue, dated 7 June 1844, of the Nauvoo Expositor, a publication he created with other disaffected Mormons, describing a hypothetical case of a young convert coming to Nauvoo only to be approached by a church elder with a proposal of plural marriage.

Joseph Smith was the fourth child of Joseph Smith Sr. (1771–1840) and Lucy Mack Smith (1775–1856), who by all accounts were hardscrabble farmers in Vermont and later western New York. Following their marriage in 1796, Lucy and Joseph farmed the rocky hills of Vermont, moving often, 19 20 | Mormonism and never managing to get very far ahead of their debt. 4 For Joseph, place was significant. As it would be for Ellen White, the locale of his childhood was critical in exposing him to religious ideas that would help set Joseph on a path to prophetic leadership.

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