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Marion Goldman
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<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <p>She has written four books, including <i>Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode,</i> a study of frontier prostitution.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Her most recent book <i>The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege</i> considers how seekers at the <a href="/facts/Esalen_Institute/vByXW7xM">Esalen Institute</a> in <a href="/facts/Big_Sur/j0QSph0g">Big Sur</a> transformed American spirituality and <a href="/facts/Psychotherapy/n2hDjaop">psychotherapy</a> through their economic, social, and spiritual privilege.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Her book, <i>Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult,</i> describes <a href="/facts/Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh/mowTIM8w">Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh</a>’s communal city in central Oregon and the high-achieving women and men who followed him there. The book revolves around composite lives of four women—a rich housewife, a feminist community social worker, and a high fashion model—who gave up their high powered careers to follow Rajneesh.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> She has also co-edited two books, written numerous scholarly articles and chapters, and served on the editorial boards of <i>Sociology of Religion</i> and the <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Religion_and_Violence/ptCACHmy">Journal of Religion and Violence</a>.</i> </p><p>Goldman has been featured on a number of television programs, notably the History Channel’s <i>Wild West Tech</i> series with <a href="/facts/Keith_Carradine/AvQXhzrV">Keith Carradine</a>, where she talked about prostitution on the mining frontier and its parallels in contemporary life.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>She has observed small cultures ranging from religious communes to brothels and looked at how they affect and often change their host societies. She has consulted with <a href="/facts/COYOTE/b5HEnWg5">COYOTE</a>, an activist sex workers’ group, and the Information Network Focus on New Religious Movements (<a href="/facts/INFORM/zW9gjS6C">INFORM</a>) in the United Kingdom. </p> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <h3>Selected books</h3> <ul><li>1972. <i>A Portrait of the Black Attorney in Chicago.</i> Chicago: American Bar Foundation Press. Pp. 62 + ix.</li> <li>1981. <i>Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode.</i> Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, Women and Culture Series. Pp. 214+ ix. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0472063324</li> <li>1995. <i>Sex, Schemes, and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance.</i> Greenwich CT: JAI Press, sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Pp. 271+viii. Edited with Mary Jo Neitz.</li> <li>1999. <i>Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult.</i> Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 298 pp. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0472088440</li> <li>2012. <i>The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege.</i> New York: New York University Press, 240 pp. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0814732879.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Marion Goldman | Sociology". Retrieved September 21, 2021. <a href="https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/mgoldman/" target="_blank">https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/mgoldman/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>University of Oregon : Department of Sociology Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/goldman.php" target="_blank">http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/goldman.php</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Butler, Anne M. (1983). "Review of Gold Diggers & Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode". Pacific Historical Review. 52 (4): 449–450. doi:10.2307/3639085. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 3639085. <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Historical_Review" target="_blank">/wiki/Pacific_Historical_Review</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bullough, Vern L. (1985). "Review of Gold Diggers & Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode". The Journal of Sex Research. 21 (3): 338–339. ISSN 0022-4499. JSTOR 3812100. <a href="/wiki/Vern_L._Bullough" target="_blank">/wiki/Vern_L._Bullough</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>'American Soul Rush,' by Marion Goldman: review - SFGate <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/American-Soul-Rush-by-Marion-Goldman-review-2433657.php" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/American-Soul-Rush-by-Marion-Goldman-review-2433657.php</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Bigelow, Deborah (1999). "Book Reviews: Social Sciences". Library Journal. 124 (20): 163. ISSN 0363-0277. <a href="/wiki/Library_Journal" target="_blank">/wiki/Library_Journal</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Konieczny, Mary Ellen (2001). "Review of Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 40 (1): 134–135. ISSN 0021-8294. JSTOR 1388192. <a href="/wiki/Journal_for_the_Scientific_Study_of_Religion" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_for_the_Scientific_Study_of_Religion</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Manning, Christel J. (2001). "Review of Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult". Contemporary Sociology. 30 (4): 373–374. doi:10.2307/3089766. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 3089766. <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Sociology" target="_blank">/wiki/Contemporary_Sociology</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Wild West Tech" Brothel Tech (2004) - Full cast and crew <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854075/fullcredits" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854075/fullcredits</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>