Renewal or rejection of faith: The case of women in three new religious movements

This article investigates the options of renewal of faith by women who join New Religious movements and the option of rejection of Christian faith to follow Krishna Consciousness. It considers how women are opting to be part of New Religious movements due to discontents in leadership, decision making and a partial perspective of the human being, all of which are partly addressed in New Religious movements. The choice to join these movements as this article attempts to show is a choice on the part of women to either renew or reject the Christian faith. In so doing, women who join the African indigenous churches and the unification Church are renewing their Christian faith. This paper will also look at those who reject the Christian faith and opt for religious movements that are deeply rooted in Hindu tradition. This paper will not look into total rejection of all faith.