Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned. Studies in the History of Sexuality (Studies in the History of Sexuality)

by Stephen Haliczer

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Haliczer's timely work uses a wealth of actual cases to document the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. Trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition vividly describes the sexual misconduct of priests and the reactions of the Church. What Haliczer shows is that the Counter-Reformation Church, eager to re-assert its morality and control, actually helped foster sexual solicitation in the confessional.
  • ISBN10 6610451222
  • ISBN13 9786610451227
  • Publish Date 1 January 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 February 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English