Sexual Morality in the World's Religions - Softcover

Parrinder, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851681086 ISBN 13: 9781851681082

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 1996

Synopsis

A unique exploration of sex and religion, covering a wide range of issues from marriage and celibacy, passion and love, to veiling, mystical union, and symbolism.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoffrey Parrinder is Emeritus Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions at King's College, London University.

From Library Journal:

Parrinder (religion, King's Coll., London) offers a seminal work in a field that rarely gets explored?sex as discussed, expounded, and advocated in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Shintoism, Baha'i, and various African and Indian religions. The author has done a good job of reading through the many sacred texts and has written a nonerotic and non-sex hating study that is highly readable and entertaining. Not a scholarly tome?it lacks the necessary footnotes and extensive exposition?it has the flavor of an exploratory or invitational work, suggesting to the reader that here is an untouched area ready for deep, scholarly investigation. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Glenn Norio Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu
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About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1851681086
• ISBN 13: 9781851681082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284