Abstract
New, startling experiments in sexuality Often emerge out of the ufology milieu. Science-fiction author Ursula Leguin, for example, describes an androgynous society in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). Various twentieth-century contactees, who redefined themselves as prophets after their CEIII experience, have founded new religious movements where the impact of advanced technologies on gender roles is explored. Procreation, parenting, monogamy, and traditional “family values” are Often challenged in UFO religions, whose leaders create new, utopian, “Scientific” models of gender and of family.
Chaque femme est un petit ange, mais la société les abîme tellement
—Raël
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Palmer, S.J. (2014). Raël’s Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order. In: Bogdan, H., Lewis, J.R. (eds) Sexuality and New Religious Movements. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386434_9
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