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Wicca --- Neopaganism --- religion --- Gerald Gardner --- British Traditional Wicca --- Alexandrian Wicca --- Wiccan views of divinity --- Aradia --- the Gospel of the Witches --- Aleister Crowley

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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic-the use of sex as a source of magical power-emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society over the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and social liberation. Focusing on a series of key figures including American spiritualist Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Julius Evola, Gerald Gardner, and Anton LaVey, Hugh Urban traces the emergence of sexual magic out of older western esoteric traditions including Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which were progressively fused with recently-discovered eastern traditions such as Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. His study gives remarkable new insight into sexuality in the modern era, specifically on issues such as the politics of birth control, the classification of sexual "deviance," debates over homosexuality and feminism, and the role of sexuality in our own new world of post-modern spirituality, consumer capitalism, and the Internet.

Liberty --- Magic --- Sex --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Miscellanea --- History. --- Sexualité --- Magie --- Liberté --- Occident --- Miscellanées --- Histoire --- academia about magic. --- aleister crowley. --- american spiritualists. --- anton lavey. --- buddhism. --- consumer capitalism. --- eastern traditions. --- feminism. --- gerald gardner. --- hinduism. --- hugh urban. --- julius evola. --- kahhalah. --- lgbtq. --- magic and witches. --- paschal beverly randolph. --- post-modern spirituality. --- queer studies. --- sexual deviance. --- sexual magic. --- sexuality. --- spirituality and the occult. --- tantra. --- tantric sex. --- western esoteric traditions. --- wicca and witchcraft. --- History

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Contemporary religious movements in America vary greatly in their organization, goals, methods, and membership. Reflecting the striking diversity of the current religious movement, the papers in this volume consider three categories of religious movements: native American churches, recently founded religious groups, and syncretistic groups based on imported cults. The general aim is to understand the varieties of human behavior within these institutions and to point out their relationship to society in the United States.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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