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