Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Published on 26. November 2014
Book
Hardback
VII, 240 pages
978-1-137-40962-1 (ISBN)
Description
Issues relating to sexuality, eroticism and gender are often connected to religious beliefs and practices, but also to prejudices against and fear of religious groups that adopt alternative approaches to sexuality. This is especially apparent in connection with new religious movements, which many times find themselves accused by the media and anti-cultists of promoting illicit and controversial views on sexuality. This anthology aims to critically investigate the role of sexuality in a number of new religious movements, including Mormon fundamentalist communities, the Branch Davidians, the Osho movement, the Raël movement, contemporary Wicca and Satanism, in addition to the teachings of Adidam and Gurdjieff on sexuality.
Reviews / Votes
"Sex is not just sex. As anyone who has deeply engaged the history of religions knows, human sexuality runs the gamut from the most mundane fetish or fantasy to the profundities of charismatic authority, mystical experience, discarnate erotic encounter, alien abduction, even human deification. The essayists in this new volume demonstrate this still ill-understood truth in abundance and with astonishing historical and psychological detail. They thus take us further down the road toward a genuine understanding of our real situation in this weird, weird world." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Reflexivity and Eroticism in the Study of Mysticism
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Edition
2014 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VII, 240 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-40962-1 (9781137409621)
DOI
10.1057/9781137386434
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Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Martha Sonntag Bradley, Cornell University, USA
Chas S. Clifton, Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA
Anthony Costabile, Adidam Midwest Center, USA
Jennifer Lara Fagen, Lamar University, USA
Per Faxneld, Stockholm University, Sweden
James R. Lewis, University of Tromsø, Norway
Susan Palmer, Concordia University, Canada
Jesper Aagaard Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Johanna J. M. Petsche, University of Sydney , Australia
Roshani Cari Shay, Western Oregon University, USA
Stuart A. Wright, Lamar University, USA
Content
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors Index