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Sexuality and New Religious Movements

Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Book Series

Editors: Bogdan, Henrik; Lewis, James R.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137386434

ISBN: 978-1-349-68146-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 16, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction: Sexuality and New Religious Movements

Bogdan, Henrik; Lewis, James R.

Pages: 1 –8

[Sexuality goes beyond the mere ability to procreate and to have erotic experiences, feelings, and responses, or the various ways in which we are sexually attracted to one another. Sexuality is intimately connected to questions of identity: who we are as individuals and also our role in society....
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities

Fagen, Jennifer Lara; Wright, Stuart A.

Pages: 9 –28

[Following the 2008 Texas state raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), there was considerable public debate surrounding polygamy and the alleged victimization of women in these communities (Wright and Richardson 2011). While some of this debate clearly focused on underage marriage—a...
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Gender among the Branch Davidians

Bradley, Martha Sonntag

Pages: 29 –58

[In a religious community, gender is layered with theological understandings about the meaning of the difference between men and women and is illustrated through notions about and practices of marriage. Exhibited in the socialization of children or the ritual embedded in worship activity, gender...
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Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (née Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Shay, Roshani Cari; Bogdan, Henrik

Pages: 59 –88

[Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (abbreviated here as BSR in citations for works written when he still used that name), stands out as perhaps the most controversial of all Eastern gurus who have managed to attract a significant Western following. Often referred to as a “sex guru”...
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Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam

Costabile, Michael Anthony

Pages: 89 –125

[Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008, born Franklin Albert Jones) was a radical and sometimes controversial spiritual master and teacher. In The Knee Of Listening, an autobiography of his spiritual quest, Adi Da writes that he was born as the “Bright”—the “Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Space of Inf-nitely...
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Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si I2, and the Sex Life of a Sage

Petsche, Johanna J. M.

Pages: 127 –148

[George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1949) was an Armenian-Greek teacher of esoteric doctrine. His rather candid teachings and views on sex and sexuality, which are scattered throughout his writings and those of his pupils, are seldom discussed by writers on Gurdjieff, though they are intrinsic...
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Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca

Clifton, Chas S.

Pages: 149 –163

[The procession moves up a dirt road under the brilliant sun. First comes a prancing contingent of little girls dressed in flowing gowns, trailing ribbons, and butterfly-shaped “fairy wings.” They are followed by about a dozen men carrying a large pine tree trunk, straddled by a buxom young woman...
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Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Contemporary Satanism

Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard

Pages: 165 –181

[Sex and Satan seem utterly entwined in contemporary culture. Mainstream movies like The Witches of Eastwick (1987), The Devil’s Advocate (1997), and Bedazzled (2000 remake) all depict an intimate link between a sexually charged Prince(ss) of Darkness, carnal prowess, and willing worshippers....
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Raël’s Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order

Palmer, Susan J.

Pages: 183 –211

[New, startling experiments in sexuality Often emerge out of the ufology milieu. Science-fiction author Ursula Leguin, for example, describes an androgynous society in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). Various twentieth-century contactees, who redefined themselves as prophets after their CEIII...
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Fantasies of Abuse and Captivity in Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales

Lewis, James R.

Pages: 213 –230

[On the evening of July 28, 1834, Edward Cutter, a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was startled by the sudden appearance of a hysterical woman at his doorstep. She was clad only in a nightgown and delirious from a combination of stress, high fever, and the sweltering heat of a Boston...

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