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This chapter focuses on the significance of changes in gender roles in the West and examines the non-Western influence of NRMs. The aim of this study is to investigate the psychology of women and their impact on men, investigating how it is possible for a woman to live out her masculine side (the animus) and at the same time be her own feminine self (the anima). Firstly, this paper examines the symbolic relations between women and men, which is often culturally and sexually divisive and whose barriers to communication are frequently unsolved, particularly in various religious groups. Secondly, it demonstrates the difficulty and even the inability to express thoughts and feelings between woman and man. Thirdly, it supports the thesis that women tend to follow the men whom they like, even changing their own political and religious ideas because it seems that women find it difficult to invent metaphysical and political discourses. Finally, we may explicitly wonder what has contributed to changing our secular society as well as our moral and religious civilisation.
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Coltri, M.A. (2017). Women and NRMs: Location and Identity. In: Bårdsen Tøllefsen, I., Giudice, C. (eds) Female Leaders in New Religious Movements. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61527-1_2
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