NRDO

2024 Nr 2

Editorial

Most of the current issue of NRDO (an article and eight texts gathered in the DOCUMENTARY "Repressing Sacred Eroticism") is inspired by the panel "`Storming Zion` Revisited: Militarized Raids and the Resurgence of Brainwashing Theory-Emic and Ethical Perspectives" that took place on the afternoon of June 12, 2024, during the annual CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) conference. The series of interventions, testimonies and analyses selected by the journal look at religious movements that promoted sacred eroticism. This term would also apply to the Movement for Spiritual Integration in the Absolute (MISA), according to the Italian researcher Massimo Introvigne in his volume published in 2022, the result of a lengthy investigation into the Movement. Introvigne studies the subject from the perspective of a sociologist and theorist of religions. Read more...