TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Jane
TI  - Octavia, daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers 
SN  - 9780300180633
AV  - BR763.B38 S53 2011eb
U1  - 280.0942561 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Barltrop, Mabel,
KW  - Panacea Society
KW  - fast
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - England
KW  - Bedford
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Christian sects
KW  - Femmes et religion
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Sectes chrétiennes
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-376) and index; Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I � Octavia -- Chapter 1 Seeking -- Chapter 2 Listening to God -- Chapter 3 The Daughter of God -- Chapter 4 Who was Mabel? -- PART II � The Community -- Chapter 5 The Female Apostles -- Chapter 6 How to Live For Ever -- Chapter 7 Trouble in Paradise -- Chapter 8 Going Global -- Chapter 9 Sex Difficulties -- Chapter 10 Don�t Fall in Love -- Chapter 11 Family Problems -- PART III � The World -- Chapter 12 Negotiating the World -- Chapter 13 Defeating the Bolshevik Menace -- Chapter 14 Open the Box!; Chapter 15 The ChurchChapter 16 Death, after all -- Epilogue -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar's widow named Mabel Bartlrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and they believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford. When the last living members of the Panacea Society revealed to historian Jane Shaw their immense and painstakingly preserved archives, she began to reconstruct the story of a close-knit utopian community that grew to include seventy residents, thousands of followers, and an international healing ministry reaching 130,000 people. Shaw offers a detailed portrait of Octavia and describes the faith of her devoted followers who believed they would never die. Vividly told, by turns funny and tragic, Octavia, Daughter of God is about a moment at the advent of modernity, when a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity in their own image, offering a fascinating window into the anxieties and hopes of the interwar years
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