{"id":6880,"date":"2014-11-21T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2014-11-21T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:31:49","slug":"sexuality-and-new-religious-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6880","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality and New Religious Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sex<\/a>Sexuality and New Religious Movements<\/em>, a collection edited by Henrik Bogdan<\/a> (associate editor of The Pomegranate<\/em>) <\/a>and Jim Lewis<\/a>, an American teaching in Norway, has been released by the academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan.<\/a><\/p>\n

So far it is only in hardback, hence expensive.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Kripal<\/a>, a noted scholar on sex and spirituality, has this to say:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have an essay in there, written long enough ago now that I have trouble remembering what I said \u2014 and, who knows, I might want to revise some of those opinions. But the opening was good: it started with this sacred procession.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sexuality and New Religious Movements, a collection edited by Henrik Bogdan (associate editor of The Pomegranate) and Jim Lewis, an American teaching in Norway, has been released by the academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan. So far it is only in hardback, hence expensive. 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