'O Come, All Ye Faithful...': Contemporary Sexuality, Transcendence and Implicit Religion
Issue: Vol 8 No. 3 (2005) Vol 8, No 3 (2005)
Journal: Implicit Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies
Abstract:
Centuries of Judeo-Christianity have accustomed us to a quite radical dissociation between sex and spirituality. The history of humanity is however permeated with cultures which envisaged the body and its passions as a privileged road towards transcendence, as a vital quest for meaning and as a genuine rave phenomenon, the fetish scene, roaming sexuality, and risky sexual behaviour), this paper suggests that this could still be a valid way to assess many aspects of sexuality in our times.
Author: Guy Ménard