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Sexuality in the confessional : a sacrament profaned / Stephen Haliczer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haliczer, Stephen, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of sexuality.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in the history of sexuality
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Spain--Clergy--Sexual behavior--History--16th century.
- Catholic Church--Spain--Clergy--Sexual behavior--History--17th century.
- Confession--Catholic Church--History--16th century.
- Confession.
- Confession--Catholic Church--History--17th century.
- Inquisition--Spain.
- Inquisition.
- Spain--Church history--16th century.
- Spain.
- Spain--Church history--17th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Catholic Church--Spain--Clergy--Sexual behavior--History--16th century.
- Catholic Church--Spain--Clergy--Sexual behavior--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Auricular Confession and the Crisis in the Church; Chapter Two: Confession and Confessors in Transition; Chapter Three: The Spanish Inquisition and Its Jurisdiction Over Solicitation; Chapter Four: Trial and Punishment; Chapter Five: The Soliciting Confessor; Chapter Six: Victims and Unwilling Penitents; Chapter Seven: Submissive and Ambivalent Penitents; Chapter Eight: Carnal Behavior and Sexual Disorders; Chapter Nine: Solicitation and Confession in the Anticlerical Imagination; Conclusion; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I
- JK; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771623-7
- 1-280-45122-X
- 0-19-535717-5
- 1-60256-043-9
- OCLC:
- 191038219
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