Chapter 1 Introduction: Female Leaders in New Religious Movements

Chapter 2 Women and NRMs: Location and Identity

Chapter 3 God’s Messenger: Ellen G. White

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

Chapter 5 ‘Where There is True Love, Anything is Effortless’: Mata Amritanandamayi: Divine Mother and Religious Entrepreneur

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

Chapter 8 Olivia Robertson: Priestess of Isis

Chapter 9 The Power of Writing in Deguchi Nao’s Ofudesaki

Chapter 10 Females’ Subversive Interventions in the Religious Field in Ethiopia

Chapter 11 Female Leadership in Mudzimu Unoera Sect of Guruve, Zimbabwe

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

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