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Book SynopsisExploring Spirituality and Sexuality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field is a collection of scholarly essays which focuses on the multiple interrelations of spirituality and sexuality, including such facets as intimate relationships, inner cultivation, gender empowerment, gender empowerment, sex education, eroticism, and ecstasy embodiments.
Table of ContentsForeword Jon Braddy Preface Nicol Michelle Epple List of Illustrations Introduction to the Sexuality and Spirituality Field of Research Phil Shining PART 1 Natural Instincts 1 Spirituality of the Sexually Charged Landscape Dennis Alan Winters 2 Spirituality and Sexuality in Prehistoric Art Richard Alan Northover PART 2 Religious Rapture 3 A Spirituality of Pleasure: the ‘Thousand- Year’ Intercourse of Siva and Sakti John R. Dupuche 4 Experiencing yada: Holistic Encounters of Spiritual Bliss between Christian Believer and God Nicol Michelle Epple PART 3 Alternative Ecstasy 5 Oscar Wilde’s Spirituality: the Erotics of Queer Theology Rita Dirks 6 The Holy Rebellious Pussy: New Feminist Demands and Religious Confrontations Assumpta Sabuco Cantó and Ana Álvarez Borrero PART 4 Taboo Challenges 7 The (In)compatibility between Spirituality and Sexuality: Contemporary Chinese Case Studies Huai Bao 8 Sex Education and Tantra Pavel Hlavinka PART 5 Limit-Experience Embodiments 9 The Abandoned Self: Excess and Inner Experience in Sadomasochism Catherine Papadopoullos 10 Embodying ‘The Little Death’ of Orgasm: an Interdisciplinary Research on Sexual Trance Phil Shining Index
