Prostitutes And Polygamists

Author : David T. Lamb
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310518488

Get Book

Prostitutes and Polygamists by David T. Lamb Pdf

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.

Author : Jeffrey D. Nichols
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 025202768X

Get Book

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power by Jeffrey D. Nichols Pdf

"The controversy waned when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to move away from polygamy in the 1890s, but resurfaced with the rise of the anti-Mormon American Party that sponsored the Stockade prostitution district. Nichols traces the interplay of prostitution and reform through World War I, when Mormon and gentile moral codes converged at the expense of prostitutes. He also considers how polygamy and religious conflict distinguished Salt Lake City from other cities struggling to abolish prostitution in the Progressive Era."--Jacket.

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824833763

Get Book

Polygamy and Sublime Passion by Keith McMahon Pdf

For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male'. This title introduces a fresh concept, 'passive polygamy', to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man's desires, turning him into an instrument of female will.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1050076046

Get Book

Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: the Hellenistic Dynasties by Daniel Ogden Pdf

Author : Paul Copan
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493437993

Get Book

Is God a Vindictive Bully? by Paul Copan Pdf

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so? Following his popular book Is God a Moral Monster?, noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2756 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102270149

Get Book

Report by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : William W. Sanger
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : RMS:RMS64S$$000002260$$$J

Get Book

The History of Prostitution : Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the World. (Being an Official Report to the Board of Alms-house Governors of the City of New York) by William W. Sanger Pdf

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824837648

Get Book

Polygamy and Sublime Passion by Keith McMahon Pdf

For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting control and gaining status for themselves, while men indulged in elaborate fantasies about female power. In Polygamy and Sublime Passion, Keith McMahon introduces a new concept, "passive polygamy," to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man’s desires, turning him into an instrument of female will. To this he adds a story that haunted the institutions of polygamy and prostitution: the tale of "sublime passion," in which the main characters are a "remarkable" woman and her male lover. Throughout the book McMahon examines how polygamy, prostitution, and the story of sublime passion encountered the first stages of paradigmatic change in the nineteenth century, decades before the legal abolition of polygamy. By the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911, love stories were celebrating the exploits of street-smart prostitutes who fleeced gullible patrons in the bustling city of Shanghai. What do these characters have in common with their early counterparts as men and women became inhabitants of a new city in an era flooded with ideas from radically foreign sources—all of this taking place in a time of economic and cultural dislocation? McMahon reads late Qing love stories in a historically symbolic way, taking them as part of a larger fantasy of Chinese civilization undergoing a fundamental crisis. The polygamous marriage and the affairs of the brothel became metaphorical staging grounds for portraying the destiny of China on the verge of modernity. Finally, McMahon speculates on the changes polygamous sexuality underwent after the Qing dynasty ended and whether it exerted a residual influence in later times. Polygamy and Sublime Passion will undoubtedly engage those interested in Chinese society, culture, literature, and gender studies as well as comparativists seeking to understand the diverse responses to modernization around the world.

Author : William W. Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Prohibition
ISBN : UVA:X000096262

Get Book

History of Prostitution by William W. Sanger Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1668 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D021965836

Get Book

Reports and Documents by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Naturalization
ISBN : UIUC:30112046491822

Get Book

The Immigration and Naturalization Systems of the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Deportation
ISBN : IND:30000077197824

Get Book

Extension Training Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orson Pratt,John Philip Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Bible
ISBN : GENT:900000030867

Get Book

The Bible & Polygamy by Orson Pratt,John Philip Newman Pdf

Author : Angela Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317054603

Get Book

Sister Wives, Surrogates and Sex Workers by Angela Campbell Pdf

Did she choose that?’ Or, more normatively, ’Why would she choose that?’ This book critiques and offers an alternative to these questions, which have traditionally framed law and policy discussions circulating around controversial genderized practices. It examines the simplicity and incompleteness of choice-based rhetoric and of presumptions that women’s conduct is shaped, in an absolute way, either by choice or by coercion. This book develops an analytical framework that aims to discern the meaning and value that women may ascribe to morally ambiguous practices. An analysis of law’s approach to polygamy, surrogacy and sex work, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, provides a basis for evaluating the choice-coercion binary and for contemplating alternate modes for assessing, from a law and policy standpoint, the palatability of social practices that appear pernicious to women. Weaving together interdisciplinary research, an innovative analytical framework for assessing choices ostensibly harmful to women, and a critique of the legal rules governing such choices, this book bears relevance for students, scholars, practicing jurists and policymakers seeking a richer understanding of conduct that moves women to the margins of law and society.

Author : Joseph Emerson Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101074868199

Get Book

Polygamy in Utah and New England Contrasted by Joseph Emerson Brown Pdf