Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shining, Phil
Otros Autores: Michelle Epple, Nicol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Ser.
Temas:
Sex > Religious aspects.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Introduction to the Sexuality and Spirituality Field of Research
  • 1 Historical Overview of Sexuality and Spirituality Interrelations
  • 1.1 The Prehistoric Sex, Life, and Death Continuum
  • 1.2 The Archaic S&S Division: Separating the Divine and Nature
  • 1.3 The Axial S&S Reintegration: Re- Joining the Human Body and the Divine
  • 1.4 The Medieval S&S Division: Separating the Divine and Pleasure
  • 1.5 The Modern S&S Division: Separating the Divine and the Truth
  • 1.6 The Global S&S Reintegration: Re- Connecting Human Life and the Divine
  • 2 Sexuality and Spirituality Key Issues and Problematizations
  • 2.1 Life Renewal
  • 2.2 Life Cycle
  • 2.3 Feminine/ Masculine Polarity
  • 2.4 Ecstasy
  • 2.5 Eroticism
  • 2.6 Inner Cultivation
  • 2.7 Intimate Relationships
  • 2.8 Gender Empowerment
  • 3 Distinguishing the Sexuality and Spirituality Field and the Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Field of Studies and Research
  • 4 Contents, Approaches, and Methodologies Presented in this Book
  • 4.1 Natural Instincts: Exploring the Natural Conditioning of Sexual Expressions
  • 4.2 Religious Rapture: Exploring Sacred Scriptures' Views on Sexual Mysticism
  • 4.3 Alternative Ecstasy: Exploring the Spirituality of Non- Hegemonic Sexuality
  • 4.4 Taboo Challenges: Obstacles and Strategies for New S&SRe- Integrations
  • 4.5 Limit-Experience Embodiments: Erotico-Mystical Arts and Non-Normative Sexual Practices
  • Bibliography
  • Part 1 Natural Instincts
  • Chapter 1 Spirituality of the Sexually Charged Landscape
  • 1 Foreplay
  • 2 Mystic Play: Mind as Sex
  • 3 Intimate Expressions: Sex as Landscape
  • 4 Divine Intervention: Landscape as Divinity
  • 5 Divinity as Sex
  • 6 Envoi
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2 Spirituality and Sexuality in Prehistoric Art
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Georges Bataille on the Sacred and the Erotic
  • 3 David Lewis-Williams' Shamanistic Theory
  • 4 Palaeolithic Southern Africa
  • 5 Palaeolithic Northern Europe and North America
  • 6 Neolithic Southern Anatolia and Ireland
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part 2 Religious Rapture
  • Chapter 3 A Spirituality of Pleasure: The 'Thousand-Year' Intercourse of Śiva and Śakti
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Erotic in the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • 2.1 Eros or Fertility
  • 2.2 Eros or Worship
  • 2.3 Eros or Purity
  • 2.4 Eros or Procreation
  • 2.5 Eros or Decorum
  • 2.6 Eros and Hell Fire
  • 2.7 Eros and Virginity
  • 2.8 Eros or Agape
  • 2.9 Eros in Recent Catholic Teaching
  • 3 Kashmir Shaivism's Spirituality of Pleasure
  • 3.1 The Erotic Body
  • 3.2 Eros as Morality
  • 3.3 The Erotic Godhead
  • 3.4 The Union of Eros and Ascesis
  • 3.5 Reaching the Goal of the Thousand-Year Intercourse
  • 4 A Christian Spirituality of Pleasure
  • 4.1 The Question

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