{"product_id":"9780300180633","title":"Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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, \u003ci\u003eOctavia, Daughter of God\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107766354160,"sku":"9780300180633","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300180633_p0.jpg?v=1763670126","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300180633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}