Sacred Eroticism

Author : Massimo Introvigne
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788869774751

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Sacred eroticism has been an important if neglected feature of Western esotericism from the early modern era down to the present day. Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism into the central feature of a mass movement, gathering some 30,000 students worldwide. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, the book explores the history of MISA from its origins to the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting in detail its ideas about Tantra and eroticism. It also discusses MISA’s approach to visual arts and cinema, including some of its members’ early incursions into the slippery world of adult movies. The study concludes with a look at hostile reactions to MISA, which have led to the issuing of arrest warrants against its founder amid a series of criminal accusations, which the movement rejects as fabricated by opponents.

Author : Juan Carlos Ubilluz
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838756256

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Sacred Eroticism by Juan Carlos Ubilluz Pdf

Sacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical framework with an (Inter)textualist approach. Juan Carlos Ubilluz reveals how Julio Cortazar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Garcia Ponce adopted Sataille and Klossowski's aesthetic and philosophical models as a point of departure to rearticulate the modern subject's buried dimension of the sacred through various Innovations on the erotic novel's form. Ubilluz examines the dialectical irruption of these literary experiments into their particular aesthetic, theoretical, and political contexts; showing, for instance, that Cortazar's

Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PSU:000023151970

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Sacred Sexuality by Georg Feuerstein Pdf

Based on a vast diversity of religious and spiritual traditions, this comprehensive exploration of sexuality's spiritual dimensions uncovers deeply hidden messages about sexuality and shows how to incorporate the concepts of Hinduism, Christianity, Judasim, and other philosophies into our lives. Illustrated.

Author : Laura Severt King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3371791

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Sacred Eroticism, Rapturous Anguish by Laura Severt King Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Popak-Bernat,Sara D'Arcy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781848883505

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Rethinking the Erotic: Eroticism in Literature, Film, Art and Society by Katarzyna Popak-Bernat,Sara D'Arcy Pdf

Author : Gilles Mayné
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0917786939

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Eroticism in Georges Bataille and Henry Miller by Gilles Mayné Pdf

Author : Massimo Introvigne
Publisher : Mimesis International
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8869773744

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Sacred Eroticism by Massimo Introvigne Pdf

Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism into the central feature of a mass movement, which now counts 30,000 members worldwide.

Author : José Miranda Justo,Elisabete M. de Sousa,Fernando M. F. Silva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527575301

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Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity by José Miranda Justo,Elisabete M. de Sousa,Fernando M. F. Silva Pdf

Contemporary philosophical research interconnects classical domains of philosophy, the arts, literature and social sciences. This collection of essays explores the operational role of experimentation, dissidence and heterogeneity in this process. It offers fundaments for the criticism of monolithical tendencies often put forward under the banner of the ‘Speculative Turn’ or New Realism, by means of exploring the contribution and influence of authors such as J. G. Hamann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Guy Debord. These philosophers, historically placed within the margins of the philosophical mainstream, were decisive in the emergence of the philosophical thought and practices of Deleuze, Wittgenstein and Bataille, as shown here. The reader will also find re-evaluations of the contributions of Vico, Spinoza or Kant to posterity, next to new readings of authors like Foucault, Hadot, Benjamin and Adorno with regards to their significant experimental and dissident positions.

Author : Lisa Isherwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567082679

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The Power of Erotic Celibacy by Lisa Isherwood Pdf

This title considers various issues regarding celibacy and Christianity including the following: how the female body is used to underpin exploitative social systems, how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body, how women have used celibacy to subvert the social order, how radical incarnationalism and queer theory create new challenges to traditional understandings of celibacy, how being erotic and celibate may manifest in social, sexual and political ways. It also explores how being erotically celibate challenges patriarchal society and opens up new theological understanding.

Author : Brandon Thomas Crowley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197662625

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Queering Black Churches by Brandon Thomas Crowley Pdf

Queering Black Churches explores how open and affirming (ONA) historically Black churches have queered their congregations. Using the lenses of practical theology, ecclesiology, Queer theology, and gender studies, Brandon Thomas Crowley examines the heteronormative histories, theologies, morals, values, and structures of Black churches and how their longstanding assumptions can be challenged to dismantle homophobia within African American congregations and move beyond surface-level allyship toward actual structural renovation.

Author : Karin E Weiss Ph.D., PhD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781796074048

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Sex and the Goddess by Karin E Weiss Ph.D., PhD Pdf

It has been over twenty years since the full manuscript of my book was edited for publication in 1998. I had begun writing it in the previous decade, the 1980’s... a period of flourishing women’s liberation movements against the patriarchal status quo. Books about women’s sexuality and spirituality were flooding the bookstores, and many writers were producing profound studies of the untold heroism of women throughout history. I was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of Sex therapy and education at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s “Program in Human Sexuality.” In addition, I conducted women’s self-enrichment groups and workshops in my private practice... “Woman’s Discovery Institute” ... where I also gave professional Astrology readings and classes. This rich mix of psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and a knowledge of the cyclic patterns of life shown by astrology created within me an avid interest in researching women’s unsung heroism throughout history. It brewed in me a heady fascination to stitch it all together in a circle montage that connects all women and all aspects of our multi-layered lives. I based my theory on the lunar cycle, which is eternally linked to women’s menstrual, emotional, and psychic cycles. With a friend, I created a series of workshops for women to celebrate their many-faceted selves and gain confidence to pursue their goals. Yet for various reasons my book manuscript remained in my own bookshelf, never getting published. Until now... the times again call for women to claim their autonomy and gain equality in an overly male-dominated and viciously callous world. I am blessed to find in Xlibris a publisher ready to take on the project with me. I am thrilled to finally see my “Life’s Masterwork” in print. You will find many divergent ideas in these two volumes. No single woman encompasses all that are described, but as you read and recognize these characters in yourselves and your friends, I hope it will help you gain a full appreciation of your own awesome erotic spirit and sacred sexual powers.

Author : Patrick Ffrench
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781904350859

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After Bataille by Patrick Ffrench Pdf

This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and the movement of the concept of sacrifice through his work and in its wake.

Author : Jonathan V. Crewe
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0838752233

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Reconfiguring the Renaissance by Jonathan V. Crewe Pdf

Dealing primarily with English and Italian Renaissance texts, and representing the work of emerging and established critics in the Renaissance field, this book reveals some of the polemical and methodological diversity of current Renaissance interpretation.

Author : Richard Rambuss
Publisher : Series Q
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047113215

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Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss Pdf

Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over the centuries. Rather than dismissing such expression as mere convention, Rambuss takes it seriously as a form of erotic discourse, one that gives voice to desires that, outside the sphere of sacred rapture, would otherwise be deemed taboo. Through startling rereadings of works ranging from the devotional verse of the metaphysical poets (Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Traherne) to photographer Andres Serrano's controversial "Piss Christ," from Renaissance religious iconography to contemporary gay porn, Rambuss uncovers the highly charged erotic imagery that suffuses religious devotional art and literature. And he explores one of Christian culture's most guarded (and literal) closets--the prayer closet itself, a privileged space where the vectors of same-sex desire can travel privately between the worshiper and his or her God. Elegantly written and theoretically astute, Closet Devotions illuminates the ways in which sacred Christian devotion is homoeroticized, a phenomenon that until now has gone unexplored in current scholarship on religion, the body, and its passions. This book will attract readers across a wide array of disciplines, including gay and lesbian studies, literary theory and criticism, Renaissance studies, and religion.

Author : A. T. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Polarity
ISBN : 0760700982

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Sacred Sexuality by A. T. Mann Pdf