New religions and spiritualities [Texte imprimé] / edited by Stephen Hunt

Collection of previously published essays

Notes bibliogr.

Sex in the city of God : free love and the American millennium / Cathy Gutierrez -- Calamus in Bolton : spirituality and homosexual desire in late Victorian England / Harry Cocks -- Women's cocoon work in new religious movements : sexual experimentation and feminine rites of passage / Susan J. Palmer -- Sex, gender, and New Age stereotyping / Lata Ta'eed -- "We are God's children, y'all" : race, gender, and sexuality in lesbian- and gay-affirming congregations / Krista McQueeney -- Sexuality, gender and the abuse of power in the master-disciple relationship : the case of the Rajneesh Movement / Elizabeth Puttick -- Reconceptualizing the human body : Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation / Susan Raine -- Sex roles in the Jesus movement / Mary W. Harder -- Sexuality, marriage and piety among charismatics in Nigeria / Matthews A. Ojo -- Social change, gender roles, and new religious movements / Angela A. Aidala -- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) experiences with earth-spirited faith / Brandy Smith and Sharon Horne -- Sexology and the occult : sexuality and subjectivity in theosophy's New Age / Joy Dixon -- Magia sexualis : sex, secrecy, and liberation in modern western esotericism / Hugh B. Urban -- A woman in the grip of the archetype of the sexual priestess / Kim Marie Vaz -- Inappropriate sexuality? : Sex magic, S/M and Wicca (or "whipping Harry Potter's arse!") / Jo Pearson -- Queer spirituality / Claudio Bardella -- Godly sex, a queer quest of holiness / Jane M. Grovijahn -- Coming out stories framed as faith narratives, or stories of spiritual growth / David J. Roseborough -- Ritual, liminality and transformation : secular spirituality in Sydney's gay bathhouses / Jason Prior and Carole M. Cusack -- Not pretty girls? : sexuality, spirituality, and gender construction in women's rock music / Kate McCarthy