Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned

by Stephen Haliczer

In Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned, Stephen Haliczer places the current debate on sex, celibacy, and the Catholic Church in a historical context by drawing upon a wealth of actual case studies and trial evidence to document how, from 1530 to 1819, sexual transgression attended the heightened significance of the Sacrament of Penance.
Attempting to reassert its moral and social control over the faithful, the Counter-Reformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195096568
• ISBN13: 9780195096569
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"