Each Mind a Kingdom

American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22927-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

The New Thought Movement was an enormously popular late nineteenth-century spiritual movement led largely by and for women. Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science is but one example of the fascinating range of these groups, which advocated a belief in mind over matter and espoused women's spiritual ability to purify the world. This work is the first to uncover the cultural implications of New Thought, embedding it in the intellectual traditions of nineteenth-century America, and illuminating its connections with the self-help and New Age enthusiasms of our own fin-de-siècle.

Beryl Satter examines New Thought in all its complexity, presenting along the way a captivating cast of characters. In lively and accessible prose, she introduces the people, the institutions, the texts, and the ideas that comprised the New Thought movement. This fascinating social and intellectual history explores the complex relationships among social reform, alternative religion, medicine, and psychology which persist to this day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Satter, Beryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche und christlich motivierte Bewegungen und Sekten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Charts and Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: New Thought in Late-Victorian America 
1. The Era of Woman and the Problem of Desire 
2. The Mother or the Warrior: Mind, Matter, Selfhood, and Desire in the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans 
3· Emma Curtis Hopkins and the Spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 
4· Sex and Desirelessness: the New Thought Novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham 
5· Money and Desire: Helen Wilmans and the Reorientation of New Thought 
6. New Thought and Early Progressivism 
7· New Thought and Popular Psychology, 1905-1920 
Conclusion: New Thought in American Culture after 1920 
Notes 
Select Bibliography 
Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

Beryl Satter is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.