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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Inscribed
- Level
- Advanced
- ISBN
- 9780313347252
- Subject Area
- Religion, Psychology
- Publication Name
- Serpent and the Dove : Celibacy in Literature and Life
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- General, Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Book, Other
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0313347255
ISBN-13
9780313347252
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61070628
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Serpent and the Dove : Celibacy in Literature and Life
Language
English
Subject
General, Sexuality & Gender Studies
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Psychology
Series
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality Ser.
Format
Book, Other
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2007-026995
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"The modern Catholic church has no more careful observer than Sipe....This book continues to deepen Sipe's thoughtful and at times angry engagement with the Catholic church's policy on clerical celibacy....His work as a kind of prophet for a revised, renovated understanding of celibacy is important." -- Library Journal, "The modern Catholic church has no more careful observer than Sipe….This book continues to deepen Sipe's thoughtful and at times angry engagement with the Catholic church's policy on clerical celibacy….His work as a kind of prophet for a revised, renovated understanding of celibacy is important." - Library Journal
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
253/.252
Synopsis
Richard Sipe, himself a former monk and priest, has made a lifelong venture of determining the reality and meaning of religious celibacy. Even an adequate operational definition of religious celibacy, he says, has been avoided by Catholic hierarchy and scholars to preserve the celibate myth. Having spent 25 years conducting a study of celibacy and sexual behavior in Roman Catholic priests, Sipe concluded that at any one time no more than 50 percent of priests were practicing celibacy. To more fully understand what celibacy is, how it is practiced, the affect it has on the humanness of men of women, and the social effects it presents, Sipe says we can use the approach presented in this book. Specifically, we can analyze historic men who presented themselves or were perceived as living examples of celibacy and also focus on the most profound truths of celibacy found in literary accounts. Psychology, religion, and literary criticism interface and are woven together in this book with minimal jargon. The Serpent and the Dove was written in the hope of exciting honest analysis of the essence of religious celibacy and to foster a recrudescence of authentic sexual vigor with all of its evolutionary potential. Human sexuality is not going away; nor is it irrelevant to the wellbeing, progress and happiness of the human community, says Sipe. And the practice of genuine celibacy is not going to disappear either. No question, the Catholic Church needs profound reformation. But in all my work I have chosen not to throw any babies out with the horrendously dirty 'holy water' the church continues to treasure and disseminate. Here, as in all my work, I try to foster dialogue between religion and science, such as literary criticism. The Catholic Church (and religion) is at a Copernican Moment when it has to cede to science the nature of sexuality. The Serpent and the Dove is one more work among Sipe's many books and articles making the need for that clear.
LC Classification Number
BV4390
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