Sexuality in the confessional : a sacrament profaned / Stephen Haliczer.

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Haliczer, Stephen, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in the history of sexualityPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585355460
9780585355467

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexuality in the confessional.DDC classification:

264/.020862/094609031 20

LOC classification:

BX2263.S7 H35 1996eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.

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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.

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