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Sexuality and New Religious Movements
. Ed(S): Lewis, J.; Bogdan, Henrik
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Description for Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Hardback. Editor(s): Lewis, J.; Bogdan, Henrik. Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137409621
SKU
V9781137409621
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About . Ed(S): Lewis, J.; Bogdan, Henrik
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Sexuality and New Religious Movements
"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 ... Read more