Sexuality and New Religious Movements

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Introduction: sexuality and new religious movements / Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis -- Gender, sexuality, and women's empowerment in Mormon fundamentalist communities / Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright -- Gender among the branch Davidians / Martha Sonntag Bradley -- Sex and gender in the words and communes of Osho (née Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) / Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan -- Sexual practice, spiritual awakening, and divine self-realization in the reality-way of Adidam -- Michael (Anthony) Costabile -- Gurdjieff on sex: subtle bodies, Si 12, and the sex life of a sage / Johanna J.M. Petsche -- Sex magic or sacred marriage? Sexuality in contemporary wicca / Chas S. Clifton -- Cult of carnality: sexuality, eroticism, and gender in contemporary satanism / Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen -- Raël's Angels: the first five years of a secret order / Susan J. Palmer -- Fantasies of abuse and captivity in nineteenth-century convent tales / James R. Lewis.