Sexuality in the confessional: a sacrament profaned
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Main Author: Haliczer, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1996
Series:Studies in the history of sexuality
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index
Auricular Confession and the Crisis in the Church -- - Confession and Confessors in Transition -- - The Spanish Inquisition and Its Jurisdiction Over Solicitation -- - Trial and Punishment -- - The Soliciting Confessor -- - Victims and Unwilling Penitents -- - Submissive and Ambivalent Penitents -- - Carnal Behavior and Sexual Disorders -- - Solicitation and Confession in the Anticlerical Imagination
Drawing upon a wealth of actual cases and trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition, this work documents the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. It argues that the Counter-Reformation Church actually helped to foster sexual solicitation in the confessional
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (267 pages)
ISBN:0195096568
0585355460
1602560439
9780195096569
9780585355467
9781602560437

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