A brilliant jewel
Sex, celibacy, and the Roman Catholic Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5136352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maya Mayblin (University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-538 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2018.1525774 |
| OpenAlex | W2901935543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
As clerical sexual abuse scandals hit the news and the crisis of vocations worsens each year, debate about the merits of mandatory clerical celibacy continues to grow. The fact remains, however, that supposedly celibate priests have been sexually active in significant numbers throughout history and that their sexual activity has barely affected the power of the Church. In this article, I focus on the ‘everyday’ nature of sexual ‘incontinence’ among a group of Northeast Brazilian priests and analyse the relative systematicity with which vow-breaking is accommodated. Such systematicity, I suggest, reveals an ongoing stable-instability at the heart of the Church as an institution; a dynamic which, if better understood, can help to explain the most characteristic (but often overlooked) feature of institutions more generally: their impressive longevity
Celibacy · Institution · Political science · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
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Learning Religion
The History of Brazil
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Religious Experience Reconsidered
Introduction
The Kingdom and the Glory
Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil
A Secret World
A Return to the Enduring Features of Institutions
How institutions think
The Category of the Person
What Kinship Is-And Is Not
Paradoxes of Intimacy
The Subject of Virtue
Asylums
Sincerity, "Modernity," and the Protestants
The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
On Mauss, masks, and gifts
Freedom in the code
Genuinely made up
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |