Braude looks at how the flourishing of Spiritualism in the mid-19th century intersected with the inception of the women’s rights movement in the same period. She documents that the most serious challenge to Spiritualism and mediumship came from the new religious movement Christian Science. However, although Mary Baker Eddy rejected Spiritualism outright, Braude finds many sympathetic Spiritualists in Eddy’s initial audience.
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The annotations by the author/editor you selected are listed below. Click the title to view the complete annotation. Some authors and editors have only one annotated resource. On each annotation page you have the ability to find related annotations based on certain criteria.“The Perils of Passivity: Women’s Leadership in Spiritualism and Christian Science” in Women’s Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream
…preempting the authority of clerical office. However, Mary Baker Eddy ordained the Bible and her textbook, Science and Health, as Pastor of her Church, guaranteeing doctrinal consistency. Braude sees Christian…
View Annotation“When the Spirit Moves Women” in Sisters and Saints, Women and American Religion
Within this all too brief chapter on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, Braude contextualizes Eddy among Spirit-moved women who believed that God’s call was more important than social conventions. These women contributed to American religious history as they balanced family, church, and leadership roles. But the complexity of Eddy’s life is better covered in Braude’s other works.
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