... celibacy. It is unclear what the resource implications of having a monk brother are, whether indeed this leads to greater access to resources for non-celibate men and lower competition between brothers. Moreover, the factors that influence a boy’s chances of being chosen by his parents to become a monk...

... and Jewish figures of the eighteenth century found a tenable compromise between tradition and Enlightenment. Benedictines Catholic Enlightenment celibacy Jesuits monasteries Reform Catholicism The phrase ‘Catholic Enlightenment’ can still sound like an oxymoron. Until relatively recently, many...

..., and the high incidence among such physicians of celibacy, childlessness, and small families. Families of origin of physicians, on the other hand, tended to be large. Assumptions about the role of women in medical care, especially in clerical and gentry families, entail a recognition of the possible influence...

... of Cleveland Frances “Dorothy” cloaks evangelism Godey’s Lady’s Book magazine Inaugural Ball “Mrs Vining’s Help” Godey’s Lady’s Book passion gendered ideas of Shaker men women abstinence Catholicism celibacy conversion female masculinity Jesus Lee Ann Mariner’s Church masculinities temperance...

... inside and outside the nation by mid-century. The book concludes by summarizing the unique challenges posed by those who were against sex in early America. It further argues for their continued relevance to present-day conversations around celibacy in the Catholic priesthood and the emergence...

...This chapter considers the often overlooked institutional argument for clergy celibacy by examining the social and institutional advantages and disadvantages of the practices of clergy marriage and celibacy. Married priests are more constrained in their mobility and relationships with parishioners...

... in obscurity for centuries before reappearing to inspire new abuses. Christianity Constantine despotism Deuteronomy Justinian law punishments Rome Theodosius II Augustus Caesar Catholic Church celibacy Innocent III marriage treason Arianism citizens and citizenship Ecumenical Council...

... on charity’s effects, like 325 Benedict’s and McCabe’s analyses, help us recover a sense of what it really means to ‘love another’ in ways that are not primarily focused on romantic attraction. Finally, within the household of God, celibacy is privileged (Familiaris consortio 16). What...

... asylums from 1832 to 1922, mapping how the patient profile changed over time. During the time frame, the structure of Irish households and the population profile changed fundamentally. By the late nineteenth century, emigration had disrupted family structures and bonds of kinship, while celibacy became...

.... The central claim is that the inconsequentiality with which the naval mutineers were frequently charged was in fact a motivated ethics of non-generativity or symbolic celibacy, protesting considerations of causality in moral and political procedure. Read sympathetically, the oddly self-trivializing practices...

... on nuns and supposed celibacy. Though anticlerical themes were common to Catholic and Protestant alike, Morata's language is very close to that of Curio in a letter to her father. The elegant poem on the death of the great Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo must date soon thereafter. Jeremiah Bembo Pietro...

... to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, saw its peak of membership and influence during the 1930s and early 1940s. Observers frequently painted Divine as a charismatic manipulator who demanded celibacy of his mostly African American female followers, but took a wife in what he described as a spiritual...

... preferable. The chapter explores all the logically possible reasons behind the very low illegitimacy rate in contemporary Japan, first by discussing celibacy until marriage, sexual intercourse (which raises the possibility of pregnancy depending on the contraception used), and cohabitation. It shows...

...This chapter discusses the castrati: castrated men with powerful high voices who sang in courts and chapels, and on public and commercial stages in Italy. According to Pietro Stella, castration from the seventeenth century onward was regarded as a particular form of celibacy. The chapter describes...

...The chapter introduces the theme of the book: pre-industrial marriage in Europe and Asia. The book aims to challenging the rhetoric of an East-West dichotomy in marriage patterns and mechanisms between Asia (China) and Europe (England). In Europe, late marriages, high celibacy rates, preventive...

... theory Marx Karl Prudence and Pressure Weber Max Gender Hajnal John Individualism Schofield Roger Wrigley Anthony Age marriage Asia Celibacy rates Collectivism Europe Trajectories to reproduction and marriage Northern Europe vs Southern Europe divergences and Remarriage Socioeconomic...

... of a man for an adolescent boy and Christian virginity. For Gregory, celibacy replicates the same spiritual outcomes as Platonic pederasty but removes the need for a physical example of beauty—the beloved—to redirect erotic desire toward the Form of beauty. celibacy agamia celibacy and marriage De...

...This chapter presents the story Eve Tushnet, a young, single woman, next recounts how, as an undergraduate, she came to a decision to live in accordance with the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality. She reflects on the “hidden treasure” in Catholicism’s spirituality of celibacy, its...

... and musical behaviors and practices that might have been construed as acts of transgression, and the distinct overlap of discourses relating to musical and erotic pleasures. It concludes with a discussion of clerics’ sexual identity, showing that the increased focus on celibacy threatened the distinction...

...Subsequent readers of the Pauline letters found much in them to support both celibacy and noncelibate marriage. A century or so later, someone formulated a tale of an elite young virgin named Thecla, who renounced her engagement and left her family to adopt an ascetic, celibate form of Christian...