Title Sexuality in the confessional : a sacrament profaned / Stephen Haliczer

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the history of sexuality Studies in the history of sexuality. Contents Auricular Confession and the Crisis in the Church -- Confession and Confessors in Transition -- The Spanish Inquisition and Its Jurisdiction Over Solicitation -- Trial and Punishment -- The Soliciting Confessor -- Victims and Unwilling Penitents -- Submissive and Ambivalent Penitents -- Carnal Behavior and Sexual Disorders -- Solicitation and Confession in the Anticlerical Imagination 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index Notes Print version record Subject Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior -- Spain -- History -- 16th century Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior -- Spain -- History -- 17th century SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject Confession -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century Confession -- Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century Inquisition -- Spain. RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy. Clergy -- Sexual behavior Confession -- Catholic Church Inquisition Biecht. Priesters. Seksuele misdrijven. SUBJECT Spain -- Church history -- 16th century Spain -- Church history -- 17th century Subject Spain Spanje. Genre/Form Church history History Electronic books. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585355460 9780585355467

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