[PDF] The Power Of Erotic Celibacy eBook

Author : Lisa Isherwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567082671

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This title considers various issues regarding celibacy and Christianity including the following: how the female body is used to underpin exploitative social systems, how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body, how women have used celibacy to subvert the social order, how radical incarnationalism and queer theory create new challenges to traditional understandings of celibacy, how being erotic and celibate may manifest in social, sexual and political ways. It also explores how being erotically celibate challenges patriarchal society and opens up new theological understanding.

Author : Lisa Isherwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567082770

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Examines the significance that celibacy may hold in the modern millennium. This book considers the female body, how it has been used to underpin exploitative social systems, and how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body.

Author : Dwight L. Wolter
Publisher : Fairview Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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Establishing balance in intimate relationships through temporary sexual abstinence

Author : Francis B. Rothluebber
Publisher : Innisfree Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781880913130

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Nobody Owns Me is the story of a nun who, through therapy, discovers and integrates her sexuality. Based on the author's more than 20 years experience counseling women, this provocative, empowering story is for all women struggling with the issue of sexuality and for those who have felt oppressed and silenced by the church.

Author : Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Celibacy
ISBN : 0684849437

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What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.

Author : Sally Kitch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252016080

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Sex is not a simple concept. Focusing on the issue of celibacy, the author explores the cultures of three post-Civil War utopian communities and their relation to female status in American society. From her examination of the Shakers, Koreshans, and Sanctificationists, the author concludes that the adoption of celibacy promoted theoretical sexual equality and female social power in those religious groups. -- Bookjacket.

Author : Elisa Janine Sobo
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780299171643

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What does celibacy mean for individuals and for the people around them? What function does it serve? This is the first cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as Kenyan villagers and U.S. prisoners, Mazatec Shamans and Buddhist nuns and monks, Shaker church members and anorexic women. The examples of celibacy described here illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health, and other dimensions of life come sharply into focus as the contributors examine the many practices and institutions surrounding sexual abstinence. They show that, though celibacy is certainly sometimes a punishment or a deliberate ritual abstinence, it also serves many other social and material functions and in some cases contributes to kin-group survival and well-being. Celibacy, Culture, and Society represents a significant step toward understanding the functions and meanings of sexuality.

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195306317

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For an educated, general readership and for use in college courses, this text introduces the role of celibacy, or a lack of it, in various religious traditions, and the contributors present the rationale for its observance (or not) within the context of each tradition.

Author : Stuart Sovatsky
Publisher : Inner Traditions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780892814053

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Introduces a Tantric form of celibacy that can be used to redirect sexual energy, and suggests exercises based on yoga