Sex And Sects

Author : Stewart Davenport
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813947075

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Sex and Sects by Stewart Davenport Pdf

With a revolution behind them, a continent before them, and the First Amendment protecting them, religio-sexual pioneers in antebellum America were free to strike out on their own, breaking with the orthodoxies of the past. Shakers followed the ascetic path; Oneida Perfectionists accepted sex as a gift from God; and Mormons redefined marriage in light of new religious revelations that also redefined God, humankind, spirit, and matter. Sex became a powerful way for each group to reinforce their sectarian identity as strangers in a strange land. Sex and Sects tells the story of these three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America: the celibate lifestyle of the Shakers, the Oneida Community’s system of controlled polyamory, and plural marriage as practiced by the Mormons. Stewart Davenport analyzes why these bold experiments rose and largely fell over the course of the nineteenth century within the confines of the new American republic. Moving beyond a social-scientific lens, Davenport traces for the first time their fascinating shared trajectory as they emerged, struggled, institutionalized, and declined in tandem—and sheds historical light on the way in which Americans have discussed, contested, and redefined the institutions of marriage and family both in our private lives and in the public realm.

Author : Louis J. Kern
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620428

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An Ordered Love by Louis J. Kern Pdf

An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). The lives of men and women changed substantially when they joined one of the utopian communities. Louis J. Kern challenges the commonly held belief that Mormon polygamy was uniformly downgrading to women and that Oneida pantagamy and Shaker celibacy were liberating for them. Rather, Kern asserts that changes in sexual behavior and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance. An elemental distrust of women denied the Victorian belief in their moral superiority, attacked the sanctity of the maternal role, and institutionalized the dominance of men over women. These utopias accepted the revolutionary idea that the pleasure bond was the essence of marriage. They provided their members with a highly developed theological and ideological position that helped them cope with the ambiguities and anxieties they felt during a difficult transitional stage in social mores. Analysis of the theological doctrines of these communities indicates how pervasive sexual questions were in the minds of the utopians and how closely they were related to both reform (social perfection) and salvation (individual perfection). These communities saw sex as the point at which the demands of individual selfishness and the social requirements of self-sacrifice were in most open conflict. They did not offer their members sexual license, but rather they established ideals of sexual orderliness and moral stability and sought to provide a refuge from the rampant sexual anxieties of Victorian culture. Kern examines the critical importance of considerations of sexuality and sexual behavior in these communities, recognizing their value as indications of larger social and cultural tensions. Using the insights of history, psychology, and sociology, he investigates the relationships between the individual and society, ideology and behavior, and thought and action as expressed in the sexual life of these three communities. Previously unused manuscript sources on the Oneida Community and Shaker journals and daybooks reveal interesting and sometimes startling information on sexual behavior and attitudes.

Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786832146

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Sex, Sects and Society by Russell Davies Pdf

In an extended account of national identity, this companion volume to People, Places and Passions provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870–1945. The author argues that whilst Wales and its people experienced a disenchantment of the spiritual world, a revolution in sexual life was taking place. This innovative study examines how advances in life expectancy and improvements in health were reflected in emotional life. In contrast to the traditional emphasis upon hardship and hardscrabble experiences, this fascinating and beautifully written volume shows that the Welsh were also a free and fun-loving people.

Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 178683216X

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Sex, Sect and Society by Russell Davies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781411692831

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Sex Cults and Other Phenomena Volume One by Anonim Pdf

Author : John R. Gregg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781796039443

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Sex, the World History by John R. Gregg Pdf

Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture is a daring exploration of human sexuality, from the ancient to the modern world. Sex, The World History traces sexual attitudes from the transcendent to the bizarre throughout world cultures. Unmasked, are sexual practices and beliefs previously omitted or obscured from all historical telling. In a scathing condemnation of religion and its control of sex, the book explores the intricate dance between spirituality and sexuality. Revealed for the first time is a history of bisexuality in the majority of human cultures. Prior to Christianity, bisexual orientation was common in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Religions have controlled sex and gender orientation throughout time. The history of LGBTQ across the globe is illuminated here. How have women been exploited in sexual and cultural roles from prehistory to present day? How does religion affect women’s sexuality throughout time? The supremacy of the Mother Earth Goddess throughout most of human existence, and her relatively recent fall, have had drastic consequences for women’s sexual expression and identity. Other topics included are sex slavery and human trafficking, child brides, forced marriages, Roman Catholic abuses, war time sexual crimes, Victorian licentiousness, the evolution of sexual attitudes in North and South America, the sexual revolution of the counter culture. Offered here is an encyclopedic tour of the sexuality of humankind.

Author : The Abyssian Union Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951156005

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So You Want to Join a Sex Cult? by The Abyssian Union Incorporated Pdf

An introduction to the Abyssian Union, a religious organization dedicated to the positive reformation of the world, thru sex.

Author : Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199672530

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History by Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal Pdf

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Author : Chapman Cohen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Psychology, Religious
ISBN : 9781465537416

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Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen Pdf

Author : Dr. Marcus Bach
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787205567

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Strange Sects and Curious Cults by Dr. Marcus Bach Pdf

Strange Sects and Curious Cults, first published in 1961, is a well-written overview of a number of important religious sects and cults. Author Marcus Bach divides these into three categories: the sex sects, conscience cults, and the utopianists. The first group includes ancient Baalism of Mesopotamia, Osirism of Egypt, Shivism of India, and more recently, Voodoo of Africa and the New World. The Conscience Cults include the Penitentes, Apocalypticists, Father Divine of Harlem, the Oxford Groupers, and Psychiana. The section on Utopians includes the now-vanished Russian Doukhobors, followed by the Shakers, Amanas, Hutterites, and Mormons. For anyone looking for a good introduction to offbeat religious groups, Strange Sects and Curious Cults will provide a useful background and serve as a basis for further research.

Author : James Neill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786469260

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The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies by James Neill Pdf

This groundbreaking work draws on a vast range of research into human sexuality to demonstrate that homosexuality is not a phenomenon limited to a small minority of society, but is an aspect of a complex sexual harmony that the human race inherited from its animal ancestors. Through a survey of the patterns of sexual expression found among animals and among societies around the world, and an examination of the functional role homosexual behavior has played among animal species and human societies alike, the author arrives at some provocative conclusions: that a homosexual or bisexual phase is a normal part of sexual development, that same-sex relations play an important balancing role in regulating human reproduction, that many societies have institutionalized homosexual traditions in the past, and that the harsh condemnation of homosexuality in Western society is a relatively recent phenomenon, unique among world societies throughout history. This well researched and meticulously documented book is the first that integrates into a coherent picture the startling revelations about human sexuality coming from the recent work of sexual researchers, psychologists, anthropologists and historians. The view that emerges, of an ambisexual human species whose complex sexual harmony is being thwarted by the imposition of an artificial understanding of nature, represents a new way of thinking about sex.

Author : Daniel Reid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780671648114

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The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity by Daniel Reid Pdf

Discusses the philosophy of Tao and offers information on diet and nutrition, fasting, breathing exercises, physical exercises, acupuncture, massage, birth control, sex therapy, and meditation

Author : Fang Fu Ruan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489906090

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Sex in China by Fang Fu Ruan Pdf

China today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexual topics, and the sexual implications of the Ym and Yang theories common in ancient China continue to influence Tantric and esoteric sexual practices today far dis tant from their Chinese origins. In recent years, a number of books have been written exploring the history of sexual practices and ideas in China, but most have ended the discussion with ancient China and have not continued up to the present time. Fang Fu Ruan first surveys the ancient assumptions and beliefs, then carries the story to present-day China with brief descriptions of homosexuality, lesbianism, transvestism, transsexualism, and prostitution, and ends with a chapter on changing attitudes toward sex in China today. Dr. Ruan is well qualified to give such an overview. Until he left China in the 1980s, he was a leader in attempting to change the repressive attitudes of the government toward human sexuality. He wrote a best selling book on sex in China, and had written to and corresponded with a number of people in China who considered him as confidant and ad visor about their sex problems. A physician and medical historian, Dr. Ruan's doctoral dissertation was a study of the history of sex in China.

Author : Anne Bolin,Patricia Whelehan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791441334

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Perspectives on Human Sexuality by Anne Bolin,Patricia Whelehan Pdf

Presents the first book-length examination of both the biological and cultural factors in human sexuality.

Author : Punjab (India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Punjab (India)
ISBN : MINN:319510023049246

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Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881 by Punjab (India) Pdf