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Author : Nagendra Kr Singh
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170248217
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Divine Prostitution written by Nagendra Kr Singh and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Qualls-Corbett
Publisher : Inner City Books
ISBN 13 : 9780919123311
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Sacred Prostitute written by Nancy Qualls-Corbett and published by Inner City Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disconnection between spirituality and passionate love leaves a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. The author illustrates how our vitality and capacity for joy depend on restoring the soul of the sacred prostitute to its rightful place in consciousness.
Author : Philo Thelos
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553954009
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Divine Sex written by Philo Thelos and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern re-examination of the Bible's references to sex strips away illegitimate religious tradition, to reveal that God views sexual pleasure as a blessing to humanity.
Author : Михаил Армалинский
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504287657X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Prostitution Divine. Short stories, movie script and essay written by Михаил Армалинский and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: В книгу включены переводы на английский язык произведений Михаила Армалинского. В неё вошли рассказы, киносценарий и эссе “Спасительница”. Большинство оригиналов было опубликовано в книге “Чтоб знали!”, изданной в московским издательством Ладомир в 2002 году.Mikhail Armalinsky is the leader of modern Russian erotica. He resides in the US since 1977. He is the publisher of Pushkin's Secret Journal 1836-1837 translated in 25 countries and the author of over 20 books of prose and poetry.The main theme in Armalinsky's work is the comprehensive study of human sexual relationships. Working outside of any literary school, following no one and producing no followers, Mikhail Armalinsky has tirelessly, over the course of half a century, promoted in the consciousness of his readers his themes, views, and convictions, which for him have the force of commandments.The main idea of the essay is that the legalization of prostitution must be based on a return of its divine, sacred character, so that prostitution will be considered the most honorable profession, the one closest to God, the holiest.Most of works in this book are translated from Armalinsky’s collection of works in Russian Чтоб знали! available at litres.ru
Author : Michael Coogan
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446574139
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book God and Sex written by Michael Coogan and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of sex and the Bible by one of the leading biblical scholars in the United States. For several decades, Michael Coogan's introductory course on the Old Testament has been a perennial favorite among students at Harvard University. In God and Sex, Coogan examines one of the most controversial aspects of the Hebrew Scripture: What the Old Testament really says about sex, and how contemporary understanding of those writings is frequently misunderstood or misrepresented. In the engaging and witty voice generations of students have appreciated, Coogan explores the language and social world of the Bible, showing how much innuendo and euphemism is at play, and illuminating the sexuality of biblical figures as well as God. By doing so, Coogan reveals the immense gap between popular use of Scripture and its original context. God and Sex is certain to provoke, entertain, and enlighten readers.
Author : Konstantinos Kapparis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110557959
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World written by Konstantinos Kapparis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution in the ancient Greek world was widespread, legal, and acceptable as a fact of life and an unavoidable necessity. The state regulated the industry and treated prostitution as any other trade. Almost every prominent man in the ancient world has been truly or falsely associated with some famous hetaira. These women, who sold their affections to the richest and most influential men of their time, have become legends in their own right. They pushed the boundaries of female empowerment in their quest for self-promotion and notoriety, and continue to fascinate us. Prostitution remains a complex phenomenon linked to issues of gender, culture, law, civic ideology, education, social control, and economic forces. This is why its study is of paramount importance for our understanding of the culture, outlook and institutions of the ancient world, and in turn it can shed new light and introduce new perspectives to the challenging debate of our times on prostitution and contemporary sexual morality. The main purpose of this book is to provide the primary historical study of the topic with emphasis upon the separation of facts from the mythology surrounding the countless references to prostitution in Greek literary sources.
Author : Andrew Newberg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1684428637
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Sex, God, and the Brain written by Andrew Newberg and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the modern world, it seems as if sexuality and spirituality have always been at odds. But what if the two are actually deeply connected? And what if science could prove this connection? From neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, Sex, God, and the Brain argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first to demonstrate—with groundbreaking brain scan research gained through Orgasmic Meditation studies—that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical. With research technical enough for academics, but explained simply enough for the everyday reader, Sex, God, and the Brain, will reframe our understanding of the link between spirituality and sexuality.
Author : Morris Silver
Publisher : Ugarit-Verlag - Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3868353003
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Sacred Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World. From Aphrodite to Baubo to Cassandra and Beyond. written by Morris Silver and published by Ugarit-Verlag - Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not intend to demonstrate that Greeks and other ancient Mediterranean peoples, men and women, married and unmarried, sought and participated in sex for its own sake. That is, it is taken as obvious, a given, that they were able to separate sex for pleasure from sex for reproduction. There never were human beings who concerned themselves only with “fertility”. Neither, does this study seek to demonstrate that some ancient Greeks were willing to provide sexual services to partners in return for the receipt of nonsexual benefits. Again, this is self-evident. Nor does this study intend to show that the ancient Mediterranean world was familiar with individuals and enterprises that regularly earned incomes by selling sexual services. Clearly, the ancient world knew prostitution as an occupation and as a form of enterprise. In an article published by Ugarit-Forschungen in 2008, Silver (2006a) challenged the view that temple/sacred prostitution did not exist in the ancient Near East. Contrary to such scholars as Julia Assante (1998, 2003), Martha T. Roth (2006) and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (2010), ample evidence indicates that it did. For the convenience of readers this article is included as a Supplement to the present volume. The original article has been reformatted to correct some typographical errors and to make it blend seamlessly into the present volume but otherwise it is unchanged. More recent materials from the ancient Near East are considered mostly in footnotes, however. The present study seeks to leap beyond this finding by showing that temple prostitution also flourished in the ancient Mediterranean. That it did is of course an “old” view, but the old supporting arguments often lack rigor and even clarity and the supporting evidence is fragmentary, contradictory and often facially absurd (e.g. Herodotus 1.199.1–5). Work of this kind has been discredited by scholars such as Fay Glinister (2000) and Stephanie Lynn Budin (2008).
Author : Rosemary Ruether
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250055
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine written by Rosemary Ruether and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether is a gifted storyteller, and lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. This work is of the highest importance, and Ruether asks the right questions at the right time. The text is groundbreaking."—Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Saint Mary's College of California "Ruether has provided a valuable introduction to an important feminist topic: what can we know about sacred female imagery in Western culture? She guides us through contemporary feminist scholarship, providing engaging narrative, and venturing her own interpretations. Ruether calls for feminists to move beyond divisions created by our different interpretations of prehistory and work together towards our common project of a more peaceful, just, and ecological world."—Carol Hepokoski, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 157506572X
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Sacred Marriages written by Martti Nissinen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, “sacred marriages,” gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define “sacred marriage” as a “real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context.” “Sacred marriages” (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, “the great dualism of human and cosmic existence.” The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor—that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the “sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse” but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
Author : Eve Rebecca Parker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450084
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India written by Eve Rebecca Parker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India, Eve Rebecca Parker theologises with the Dalit women who from childhood have been dedicated to village goddesses and used as ‘sacred’ sex workers.
Author : Michael Gold
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765760012
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book God, Love, Sex, and Family written by Michael Gold and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Selena Truth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438926797
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Tales of a Sacred Prostitute written by Selena Truth and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Sacred Prostitute is a true-life story of Selena Truth - a woman who bridged the gulf between spirituality, healing and the bourgeoning American sex industry. Erotic and intimate, this autobiographical expose of Tantric lovemaking takes the reader on a journey into the taboo world of modern-day sacred prostitution. Selena emerges a Tantric missionary with mastery in the art of ecstatic pleasures and esoteric knowledge of the fullness of life.
Author : Leelesh Sundaram B
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Mending The Moral Maze: Finding A Fair Path To Curtail Prostitution written by Leelesh Sundaram B and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2024-09-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution has been a deeply complex social issue, entangled with moral, legal, and cultural debates for centuries. This exploration seeks to examine the multifaceted nature of prostitution, drawing on global case studies and various legal approaches, from decriminalization to regulation. By analysing both the successes and failures of these strategies, the text highlights the deeper societal and institutional factors contributing to the persistence of prostitution. It also underscores the importance of addressing moral perspectives and their influence on policy-making, calling for a balanced, research-driven approach to ensure the rights and dignity of those involved are protected.
Author : Leslie C. Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356721
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God written by Leslie C. Orr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics and allowed them to establish themselves in roles with particular social and religious meanings. This study suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman and, more generally, of the roles of women in Indian religion and society.
Author : Lucinda Ramberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376415
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Given to the Goddess written by Lucinda Ramberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.
Author : David T. Lamb
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310518482
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Prostitutes and Polygamists written by David T. Lamb and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes. What are polygamists and prostitutes doing on the pages of Holy Scripture? And God told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute. What about Cain—did he really marry his sister? Abraham did, and he was also a polygamist. Lot offered his daughters up for rape, David committed adultery (or rape?) and the Bible calls both men righteous. Love, Old Testament style, was bizarre. As readers of the Old Testament encounter these weird, confusing, and horrific “love” stories they ask, “What’s up with sex in the Old Testament?” The church often ignores the R-rated bits of the Bible, so it’s hard for people to find answers to their disturbing questions about sex in Scripture, which can lead people to give up on God and God’s word. However, these stories were included in the Bible for a reason, to reveal an even more shocking “love” story. When humans behave badly, God behaves graciously. God not only forgives people with sexual baggage, but also redeems their lives and includes them in his mission. God’s word records their story to benefit us. Just as sex was not often ideal in the Old Testament, it’s often not ideal today. Instead of ignoring these stories, Prostitutes and Polygamists engages, discusses, and learns from them.
