Sexuality and New Religious Movements

✍ Scribed by Henrik Bogdan, James R. Lewis (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Sexuality and New Religious Movements....Pages 1-8
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities....Pages 9-28
Gender among the Branch Davidians....Pages 29-58
Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (née Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)....Pages 59-88
Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam....Pages 89-125
Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage....Pages 126-148
Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca....Pages 149-163
Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Contemporary Satanism....Pages 165-181
Raël’s Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order....Pages 183-211
Fantasies of Abuse and Captivity in Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales....Pages 213-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-240

✦ Subjects

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