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Secord, Jared. "The Celibate Athlete." Studies in Late Antiquity 2, no. 4 (2018): 464–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sla.2018.2.4.464.

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In this article, I propose a new way of interpreting athletic metaphors in early Christian literature. I argue that the metaphorical figure of the athlete would have evoked for ancient readers not simply the ideas of competitive struggle, but also the idea of sexual abstinence, a lifestyle choice closely associated with athletes in the Greco-Roman world. The article collects and discusses evidence for the practice of athletic celibacy, drawing together a disparate collection of medical and philosophical literature, with Christian sources, from the second and third centuries CE. It demonstrates that athletic celibacy was a familiar concept in this period, and that many observers were interested in the methods that athletes used to control their sexual urges, including applying lead plates to their loin muscles. The treatment of this evidence suggests that there was greater interest in sexual abstinence among non-Christians than has previously been understood, and that athletes were implicated in controversies about whether or not total abstention from sex was a healthy lifestyle choice. As such, I argue that it is plausible to regard the athletic imagery of early Christians not only as a metaphorical comparison between two kinds of strident individuals, but also as advocacy for the celibate life as the most healthful lifestyle.

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Kitch, Sally L., Elisa J. Sobo, and Sandra Bell. "Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence." Contemporary Sociology 31, no. 1 (January 2002): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3089412.

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Waldner, L. K. "Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 285, no. 23 (June 20, 2001): 3028—a—3029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.285.23.3028-a.

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Hirsch, Jennifer S. "Celibacy, Culture and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence." American Ethnologist 30, no. 4 (November 2003): 640–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2003.30.4.640.

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Hamaya, Mariko. "Feminisation of Ascetic Celibacy in Haridwar." South Asia Research 39, no. 3_suppl (September 2, 2019): 26S—41S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728019872051.

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Case studies of male–female ascetic couples in Haridwar in North India complicate the widespread knowledge that male Hindu renouncers are supposed to observe celibacy. Based on extended ethnographic work, this article investigates specifically how female ascetics tackle the dominant androcentric discourses and practise celibacy from a female point of view, focussing on their practice of sevā or spiritual service. The article argues that while female ascetics do not object to the androcentric ideology of celibacy, they follow it only partly, switching their focus from sexual abstinence to devotional sevā. Doing this, female ascetics value controlling emotion more than controlling sexual desire. Through the practice of sevā, they aim for fostering an attitude of devotion as a feminised manifestation of their efforts towards reaching spiritual attainment.

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Roper, Lyndal. "Sexual Utopianism in the German Reformation." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42, no. 3 (July 1991): 394–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046900003365.

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When the first clerical marriage took place in defiance of church law, the Reformation embarked on a course which involved far more than mere tinkering with the moral regulation of the priesthood. Clerical marriage necessitated a reconsideration of one of the oldest Christian conundrums, the relationship between the holy and the body. Now that a life of celibacy was no longer mandatory for the clergy, and sexual abstinence was no longer considered to be the estate most pleasing to God, reformers had to build a new accommodation between sexuality and the sacred. Sexual renunciation and holiness, once indivisible, had been riven apart.

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Gundry, Judith M. "Affliction for Procreators in the Eschatological Crisis: Paul’s Marital Counsel in 1 Corinthians 7.28 and Contraception in Greco-Roman Antiquity." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 39, no. 2 (November 1, 2016): 141–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142064x16675268.

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The interpretation of 1 Cor. 7 in terms of an ideal of sexual asceticism has been widely critiqued and fallen out of favor. The majority of scholars explain Paul’s preference for celibacy in terms of its expedience (1) for serving the Lord (cf. 7.32-35) and (2) for avoiding ‘affliction in earthly life’ (cf. 7.28). Against the latter reason to prefer celibacy, this article argues that Paul associates procreation, not marriage, with affliction, and that he warns those who marry in order to procreate to expect affliction in the last days. Marriage and sex are (now) simply to avoid ‘burning’ with sexual desire, leading to sexual immorality, not for having children. In support, Paul abandons the traditional obligation of procreation and procreative sex and permits sexual abstinence ‘by agreement, for a period [fit for something] in order to devote yourselves to prayer’ (7.5b). The unstated purpose here is to spare the Corinthians affliction as a result of having children in the coming days, as expected in some apocalyptic texts which also refer to the use of birth control and family planning to avoid suffering and death.

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Delany, Paul. "Isaiah Berlin and the Animal Instinct." European Judaism 54, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ej.2021.540112.

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Between Aristotle and Hegel, none of the major Western philosophers were married. Is abstract thinking, at its highest, incompatible with the messiness of everyday life? At the age of nineteen, Isaiah Berlin said he was ‘vowed to eternal celibacy’. Was there a connection between his sexual abstinence and his choice of analytical philosophy as a career? During World War II he fell in love with the gentile Patricia de Bendern; this frustrating affair coincided with Berlin’s shift from abstract logic to the history of ideas. In 1956 he took a Jewish bride, Aline Halban. His personal history reflects difficulties in choosing between endogamy and exogamy, Zionism and the diaspora, negative and positive liberty.

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Grzyś, Olga. "Literatura hiszpańskojęzyczna o władztwie religii katolickiej nad ciałem osób duchownych i konsekrowanych." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia Historicolitteraria 20 (December 20, 2020): 369–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20811853.20.23.

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Catholic religion presents an ambivalent attitude towards the body: it adores the tormented and resurrected body of Christ, but rejects human physicality, regarding it as a cause and consequence of sin. Such conviction led to imposing numerous restrictions on almost all life spheres of priests, nuns and monks. They cannot get around, get dressed or decide about their activities and relationships freely. They subject their bodies to mortification, vowing celibacy and sexual abstinence. However, a desire to marginalise the physical sphere of human life, which was rooted in the Church, has produced the opposite result. As a consequence, the body became the centre of interest not only for clergymen and believers, but also writers, poets and artists from different countries and periods. The paper focuses on the literature of Spanish‑speaking countries, searching for references to the methods of bodily discipline among clergymen and consecrated people. The abundance and variety of presented examples point to the fact that this topic is worth of interest and a deeper analysis.

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Zaleski, John. "Sufi Asceticism and the Sunna of the Prophet in al-Junayd’s Adab al-Muftaqir ilā Allāh." Journal of Islamic Studies 32, no. 1 (December 20, 2020): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/etaa051.

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Abstract One of the central claims of early Sufis was the harmony of the Sufi path with the sunna of the Prophet Muḥammad. It remains to be explored, however, how early Sufis related to the sunna as an authoritative model. Focusing on the writings of al-Junayd al-Baghdādī (d. 298/910–11), in particular the understudied Adab al-Muftaqir ilā Allāh, this article argues that al-Junayd sought to resolve a tension between anti-ascetic aspects of the sunna and the ascetic practices undertaken by Sufis. By attributing appeals to anti-ascetic ḥadīths to the influence of the lower-soul (nafs), al-Junayd made room for Sufis to undertake practices, including celibacy, that ran counter to the widely accepted sense of sayings of the Prophet. In so doing, he intervened in ongoing discussions concerning the value of asceticism and sexual abstinence. Al-Junayd’s writings reveal a nuanced approach to the sunna, whereby Sufis must identify those aspects of the sunna that would help rather than hinder their spiritual path. His writings thus take us beyond the (correct) affirmation that early Sufis upheld the law and sunna and allow us to see how Sufis wrestled with the example of the Prophet and the meaning of his life and words for their path to God.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Celibacy Sexual abstinence"

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Keroloss, Heshmat. "Towards an Orthodox theology of chastity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Hobbs, Russell Joseph Wood Ralph C. Williams Daniel H. Miner Robert C. "Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy : Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/3004.

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Books on the topic "Celibacy Sexual abstinence"

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Women, passion & celibacy. New York: Carol Southern Books, 1993.

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Women, celibacy and passion. London: Optima, 1994.

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Women, celibacy, and passion. London: A. Deutsch, 1993.

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Brown, Gabrielle. The new celibacy: A journey to love, intimacy, and good health in a new age. New York: McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., 1989.

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Wolter, Dwight Lee. Sex & celibacy: Establishing balance in intimate relationships through temporary sexual abstinence. Minneapolis, Minn: Deaconess Press, 1992.

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Being sexual-- and celibate. Notre Dame, Ind: Ave Maria Press, 1986.

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Le retour au paradis: La relation entre la sanctification de l'homme et l'ascèse sexuelle chez Tertullien. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.

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Brabander, Kris de. Le retour au paradis: La relation entre la sanctification de l'homme et l'ascèse sexuelle chez Tertullien. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.

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Jiménez, Vincent. El sacerdote casado. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial COSMOS, 1987.

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ʻAlyān, Fāṭimah Shawkat Muḥammad. Mushkilat al-marʾah al-kubrá: Al-ʻuzūbah wa-al-gharīzah. al-Riyāḍ: F.Sh.M. ʻAlyān, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Celibacy Sexual abstinence"

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Benkheira, Mohammed Hocine. "Celibacy and Sexual Abstinence in Early Islam*." In The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World, 341–53. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108556279.017.

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