Celibacy in Crisis

A Secret World Revisited

A.W. Richard Sipe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2003
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-94473-1 (ISBN)

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At the start of the 21st century, scandal and controversy concerning sexual misconduct by priests has effectively shaken the Catholic Church. In this title, therapist and former priest, A.W. Richard Sipe examines the issue of celibacy in the priesthood.

A.W. Richard Sipe

Foreword by Reverend Richard P. McBrien
PART I.BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
1. WHY STUDY CELIBACY?
Sex/Celibacy: Breaking the taboo · The broader context · The study: what it is and what it is not · Reasons for this study
2. WHAT IS IT?
Factors of the Crisis · The meanings of celibacy · Abstinence · Law and ideal · Christ the ideal · Love · Definition of Celibacy
3. HOW DO THOSE WHO PROFESS CELIBACY PRACTICE IT?
Levels of Observation · Numerical Summary · Estimates of Sexual Behavior · Narratives

PART II. PRACTICE VERSUSPROFESSION
4. THE MASTURBATIONS
Nature · Pathology · Maturity and immaturity · Nocturnal emissions · Fasting · Spontaneous emissions · Vice and virtue · Guilt
5. PRIESTS AND WOMEN
The heterosexual presumption · Splitting and secrecy · Heterosexual relationships · Heterosexual behaviors · Patterns of association
6. WHEN PRIESTS BECOME FATHERS
Births · Abortion
7. THE HOMOSEXUALITIES
Homosexualities and the clergy · Denial of the homosocial structure · The male matrix · The system of secrecy · Developmental questions and variations · Alcoholism · Acquired immune deficiency syndrome · Homosexuality and mental health
8. SEXUAL COMPROMISES
What is normal? · The place of women · Fear of women · What is pornography? · Exhibitionistic behavior · Transvestism · Priests and animals · Suffering and sexual violence

PARTIII. THE HEART OF THE CRISIS
9. PRIESTS AND MINORS
What is pedophilia? · Frequency of Occurrence · Social ramifications of abuse · Causes · Avenues of access · Behaviors · Victims-the aftermath · Treatment · Awareness of the problem · The future
10. WHO ABUSES?
Psychological profile · Categories of vulnerability · Four case studies
11. CAN CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE BE PREVENTED?
Screening · Denial · Ecclesiogenic factors · Systemic elements · Mandatory celibacy · Ethical code · Impediments to ethical definitions · Elements of a code of sexual ethics

PART IV. PROCESS AND ATTAINMENT
12. LIVING WITH CELIBACY
What is the process of celibacy? · Developmental relationships · Internalization · Temporal stages
13. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CELIBACY
Essential elements of celibate achievement · Who will follow? · The crisis of abuse
EPILOGUE: DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS The seven pillars of the crisis

ReferencesIndex
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-94473-2 / 0415944732
ISBN-13	978-0-415-94473-1 / 9780415944731
Zustand	Neuware