Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality (Religion in North America) - Hardcover

Sasson, Sarah Diane

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ISBN 10: 0253001773 ISBN 13: 9780253001771

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2012

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Book by Sasson Sarah Diane

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Yearning for the New Age will be particularly insightful to those who study the development of alternative religions-including Spiritualism, Shakerism, and Theosophy-in the United States and the roles of women within such traditions. . . . Along its richly detailed biography, readers of Yearning for the New Age will encounter important additions and new materials that will deepen historical understandings of New Age movements in America. * American Studies * As Sasson's title suggests, there is an inherent ambiguity in the life of [Laura Holloway-Langford]. On the one hand, there is the spiritual quest from liberal Protestantism to spiritualism to theosophy to Buddhism; on the other, there is her pragmatically progressive critique of sexual norms and her championing of women's rights (though she was ambivalent about suffrage), women's labor, and the agenda of the New Woman.2013 100.1 * Journal of American History * DianeSasson's excellent biography of Laura Holloway-Langford (1843-1930) uses evidence from letter collections, 29 books, and more than 80 articles that Holloway-Langford published from1868 to 1917, show how Holloway-Langford challenged traditional values that circumscribed women's lives. * Nova Religio *

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This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Laura Holloway-Langford, a "rebel girl" from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a journalist. She soon became famous as the author of Ladies of the White House, which secured her financial independence. Promoted to associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, she gave readings and lectures and became involved in progressive women's causes, the temperance movement, and theosophy-even traveling to Europe to meet Madame Blavatsky, the movement's leader, and writing for the theosophist newspaper The Word. In the early 1870s, she began a correspondence with Eldress Anna White of the Mount Lebanon, New York, Shaker community, with whom she shared belief in pacifism, feminism, vegetarianism, and cremation. Attracted by the simplicity of Shaker life, she eventually bought a farm from the Canaan Shakers, where she lived and continued to write until her death in 1930. In tracing the life of this spiritual seeker, Diane Sasson underscores the significant role played by cultural mediators like Holloway-Langford in bringing new religious ideas to the American public and contributing to a growing interest in eastern religions and alternative approaches to health and spirituality that would alter the cultural landscape of the nation.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0253001773
• ISBN 13: 9780253001771
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370