Author : A.W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134851413
A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of celibacy.
Author : Hephzibah Anderson
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Chastity
ISBN : 9780099532156
Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she's single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance? This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love. She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London. Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
Author : Dwight L. Wolter
Publisher : Fairview Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Establishing balance in intimate relationships through temporary sexual abstinence
Author : Benjamin Kahan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822377187
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
Author : Alexis Jones
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781073602377
A young Christian couple dedicates themselves to remain celibate until they are married. Stephan and Alexis walk readers through a difficult transition in their lives with a glimpse into the first 50 days of their Celibacy Journal. This journal is filled with the couple's struggles and triumphs, favorite scriptures, advice, and encouraging words suitable for anyone aspiring to follow God's will, regardless of age or relationship status. The journals are written from a male, female, and sometimes a joint perspective, chronicling each day as the calendar turns on yet another personal victory God has allowed the couple to complete. Various topics are covered throughout the book, including but not limited to: Vision, Focus and Discipline, External Stimuli, and Prayer. The Journals are easy reads to fulfill the couple's God-given purpose to encourage others and ultimately win souls!
Author : A. W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Liguori Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Celibacy
ISBN : 9780892438747
Celibacy explores the different questions about life, love and altruism through an insightful and revealing analysis of the essential elements of sexuality as they relate to celibacy. These include gender, orientation, degree of desire, object of excitation, developmental experiences, behaviors, relationships, patterns of integration, and identity.
Author : Gabrielle Brown
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1981-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780345298034
Author : Donald B. Cozzens
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814631607
Cozzens explores priestly celibacy as a source of power and burden of obligation, as spiritual calling and gift of the Spirit. He affirms celibacy as a charism, a gift that is true for some, but only when received as a grace.
Author : A.W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134851340
A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of celibacy.
Author : Elisa Janine Sobo
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780299171643
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.
