Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.11.2017
Verlag
Jonathan CapeSeitenzahl
418
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,3/2,5 cm
Gewicht
695 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78733-027-6
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 Barltrop. Her followers called her Octavia and believed that she was the daughter of God sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford. Proclaiming the female aspects of God Octavia attracted former suffragettes middle-class Christian women and passionate spiritual seekers to Bedford where they followed her in rigorous religious practices. She appointed twelve women as her apostles and put the rest to work to spread her Word: that human beings through Panacea could achieve immortal life on earth. Acclaimed historian Jane Shaw found the last living members of the Panacea Society who revealed to her their immense painstakingly-preserved archives. She discovered a utopian community that once had seventy residents thousands of followers and an international healing ministry that reached 130 000 people around the globe. Octavia Daughter of God is a fascinating group biography and a revelatory work of cultural and narrative history. Vividly told by turns funny and tragic it reveals in intimate detail the complex out-sized personality of Octavia; the faith of her devoted followers who believed they would never die; and the intricacies and intrigues of her close-knit community. But Octavia Daughter of God is also about a moment at the advent of modernity when a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity in their own image. Startlingly modern in their resolve and curiously reactionary in their social views and politics their story is a portrait of an age. It offers a window into the anxieties and hopes of the interwar years through the lives of ordinary people who believed extraordinary things about God this world and the next.
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