Introduction Why Study Women in New Religions?

Media and other popular depictions of new religions often highlight the bizarre: the mass suicide/murders of members of Peoples Temple at Jonestown, Guyana, polygamous marriages among Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, the group suicide of Nike-clad followers of Heaven’s Gate, or collective weddings...

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Published inWomen in New Religions Vol. 3; p. 1
Main Author Vance, Laura
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States NYU Press 13.03.2015
New York University Press
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied sociology
Behavioral sciences
Charismatic movements
Christian philosophy
Christianity
Ethnography
Ethnology
Gender construction
Gender identity
Gender roles
Gender studies
Human societies
Jewish studies
Judaism
Protestant philosophy
Religion
Social dynamics
Social movements
Social sciences
Socialization
Sociology
Sociology of religion
Spiritual belief systems
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Summary:Media and other popular depictions of new religions often highlight the bizarre: the mass suicide/murders of members of Peoples Temple at Jonestown, Guyana, polygamous marriages among Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, the group suicide of Nike-clad followers of Heaven’s Gate, or collective weddings featuring hundreds of followers of Sun Myung Moon simultaneously repeating wedding vows. New religions, however, are more varied—and often more mundane—than these images suggest. Indeed, because of the almost exclusive media focus on the more surprising aspects of atypical new religions, in the popular imagination new religions are strange and dangerous, their leaders are treacherous or
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