Hugh B. Urban, Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism.

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion March 4, 2009 DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v21i2.251 (opens in new tab)

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Key findings	The review presents Urban's argument that sexual magic in modern Western esotericism has been a persistent and significant practice, evolving from nineteenth-century occultism to contemporary movements, and often linked to themes of transgression and liberation.

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Hugh B. Urban, Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2006, pp. xi + 336, ISBN 978-0-520-24776-5 (Hbk). R

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