Sex and Spirit: Ecstasy, Ritual and Taboo (Living wisdom)

by Clifford Bishop

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This work provides a multi-faceted treatment of the relationship between sex and the human spirit. Topics covered in the book include: sexual practices; fertility religions; sex and the hunter; sacred prostitutes; mystical fusions of body and spirit (for example through Tantra); Dionysus and collective ecstasy; and the complex tensions between body and soul in Christianity and other religions. It is illustrated with contemporary and historic art, including pillow books and Tantric carvings.
  • ISBN10 1900131943
  • ISBN13 9781900131940
  • Publish Date 14 September 2000 (first published 13 September 1996)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 June 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Watkins Media
  • Imprint Duncan Baird Publishers
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 184
  • Language English