Female Leaders in New Religious Movements

1. Introduction: Female Leaders in New Religious Movements
Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Christian Giudice

2. Women and NRMs: Location and Identity
Marzia A. Coltri

3. God’s Messenger: Ellen G. White
Laura L. Vance

4. Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Gender, Sexuality, and the Divine Feminine
Erin Prophet

5. ‘Where There is True Love, Anything is Effortless’: Mata Amritanandamayi: Divine Mother and Religious Entrepreneur
Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen

6. Mother and Father of Oneness: An Intersectional Reading of the Shared Leadership of Amma and Bhagavan
Elin Thorsén

7. ‘I, Jehovah’: Mary Ann de Grimston and The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Christian Giudice

8. Olivia Robertson: Priestess of Isis
Vivianne Crowley

9. The Power of Writing in Deguchi Nao’s Ofudesaki
Avery Morrow

10. Females’ Subversive Interventions in the Religious Field in Ethiopia
Serawit Bekele Debele

11. Female Leadership in Mudzimu Unoera Sect of Guruve, Zimbabwe
Fortune Sibanda

12. The Politics of the Goddess: Radical/Cultural Feminist Influences of Starhawk’s Feminist Witchcraft
Shai Feraro

13. The Chalice and the Rainbow: Conflicts Between Women’s Spirituality and Transgender Rights in US Wicca in the 2010s
Michelle Mueller

Keywords: Religious Studies, Religion and Gender