Sexuality and the Catholic Priesthood: The 'Chaste' Caste [Paperback]

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1??????? THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ROOTS OF A RESEARCH PROJECT: THE MYSTERY OF CLERICAL SEXUALITY

2??????? IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH: THE STORY OF A CHALLENGING ENQUIRY

3??????? CATHOLIC PRIESTHOD AND PASTORAL POWER: AN UNBREAKABLE UNION

4??????? CHASTITY AND SACRALITY IN CATHOLICISM: THE CELIBACY OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY

5??????? MANUFACTURING GOD'S MEN: THE TASK OF THE CATHOLIC SEMINARS

6??????? SEMINARS AS TOTAL INSTITUTIONS

7??????? PERSONAL IDENTITY AND CLERCIAL VOCATION: WHO GOES INTO A SEMINARY TODAY?

8??????? OBSESSION AND GUILT: SEMINARIANS TROUBLED SEX LIVES

9??????? HOMOPHOBIA AND HOMOPHILIA IN THE SEMINARIES: TWO FACES OF A SINGLE COIN

10????? HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE SEMINARIES - PAIN, DENIAL AND CYNICISM

11????? RARE BIRDS IN THE SEMINARIES: THE CHALLENGING LIVES OF HETEROSEXUAL STUDENTS

12????? THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: SECRETS, DENIAL AND LIES IN THE TRAINING OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY

13????? A FREE FOR ALL. THE SEX LIVES OF HETEROSEXUAL PRIESTS

14????? EMOTIONAL NEEDS AND UNBRIDLED SEX: THE HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY

15??????????? CLERICAL LIES AND PUBLIC WELFARE

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????? TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN BY ISABELLE JOHNSON.

This book offers a sociological study of the the sexual and emotional lives of Catholic clergy, the role played by chastity in the Church and the way the institution trains its staff to be, at least outwardly, celibate, as well as the effects of this.

Based on interviews with Roman Catholic seminarians, priests al!