Religion and Sexuality: The Perversion of a Natural Marriage

From the beginning of human history religion and sexuality have shared certain characteristics. But what existed in early history as a natural linguistic and liturgical marriage between two activities with certain shared emotional, psychological, and even physical goals, ended in most of the "g...

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1. VerfasserIn: Leeming, David Adams 1937- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2003]
In: Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 2003, Band: 42, Heft: 2, Seiten: 101-109
weitere Schlagwörter:B Sexuality
B Religion
B Religious Language
B Repression
B the feminine
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Zusammenfassung:From the beginning of human history religion and sexuality have shared certain characteristics. But what existed in early history as a natural linguistic and liturgical marriage between two activities with certain shared emotional, psychological, and even physical goals, ended in most of the "great religions" centuries ago in divorces fueled by patriarchal fear and prejudice. The split between sexuality and religion is especially evident in the repression of women and the criminalization of sexuality characteristic of our Abrahamic religions, factors that have led all too often to tragic and perverted parodies of the old natural marriage.
ISSN:1573-6571
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1023621612061