Subject: Religion Book Title: Celibacy and Religious Traditions
Celibacy and Religious Traditions
Olson, Carl
(Editor), Professor of Religious Studies, Allegheny College
Print publication date: 2007
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530631-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306316.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530631-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306316.001.0001
Abstract:
This book is intended for an educated general readership and for use in college courses. It is also intended to be a supplement to other texts in introductory courses in various religious traditions, because the issues raised by its essays play pivotal roles in many cultures. Moreover, the chapters in this book are intended to introduce students to the role of celibacy, or a lack of it, in various religious traditions, and the contributors present the rationale for its observance (or not) within the context of each tradition.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Celibacy and the Human Body: An Introduction
2. Celibacy in the Greco-Roman World
3. “And Jacob Remained Alone”
4. Celibacy in the Early Christian Church
5. “Let Anyone Accept This Who Can”
6. Celibacy and the Protestant Traditions
7. Islamic Tradition and Celibacy
8. Celibacy in Classical Hinduism
9. Hindu Devotionalism, Tantra, and Celibacy
10. Sthūlabhadra's Lodgings
11. Celibacy in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
12. Celibacy in East Asian Buddhism
13. Sexual Control and Daoist Cultivation
14. Shinto and Celibacy
15. A Social-Cultural Analysis of Celibacy among the Yoruba
16. Celibacy and Native American Indians
17. Abstinence, Balance, and Political Control in Mesoamerica
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306316.001.0001
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