The Serpent and the Dove: Celibacy in Literature and Life
Celibacy, or the “celibacy crisis,” is one of the issues raised in both the recent wave of Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandals as well as in the earlier (mid-1980–1990s) wave. A. W. Richard Sipe, former Benedictine priest and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine lecturer in psychotherapy...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 338-339 |
| Review of: | The serpent and the dove (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007) (Shupe, Anson)
The serpent and the dove (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007) (Shupe, Anson) |
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| Summary: | Celibacy, or the “celibacy crisis,” is one of the issues raised in both the recent wave of Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandals as well as in the earlier (mid-1980–1990s) wave. A. W. Richard Sipe, former Benedictine priest and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine lecturer in psychotherapy (now married and semi-retired in private practice), has been following celibacy and other sexual matters concerning Roman Catholic priests for close to four decades, authoring or co-authoring a number of books (clinical and historical) on the subject. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp047 |