Sexuality and Spirituality in 19th - 20th century hungarian catholic prayer books
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Type = Book Section
Cím:
Sexuality and Spirituality in 19th - 20th century hungarian catholic prayer books
Létrehozó:
Nagyné Frauhammer, Krisztina
Közreműködő:
Barna, Gábor
Gyöngyössy, Orsolya
Kiadó:
MTA-SZTE Vallási Kultúrakutató Csoport
Dátum:
2016
Téma:
BR140-1510 History / egyháztörténet
DN1 Hungary / Magyarország
Tartalmi leírás:
This study presents and interprets the church topos formed in the 19
th
–
20
th
centuries according to which the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and
the church judgement of sexual behaviour arising from it. The prayer books of
the period are the primary sources of my analysis. Making use of a previously
entirely unexplored Hungarian Catholic source group, the texts of prayers and
meditations, as well as the examinations of conscience, the mirror of the soul,
related to confession, I look at where the church at that time drew the accept-
able boundaries of sexuality and how it argued when defining those boundaries.
Church discourse on the topic focused on excessive expectations regarding purity
of the body. This was especially evident in the prayer and meditation texts rec-
ommended for young girls. A special language built up of metaphors describing
purity placed on a pedestal and almost sacralised, and of coded allusions can be
observed in the texts. All further virtues were seen to arise from this, and so they
were protected almost obsessively from even the thought of sexuality. The main
antidotes to the dangers of sensuality were full isolation, suppression and the
conscious stifling of emotions. Catholic girls and women had to be continuously
on guard to keep the defensive functions operating, and in case of concern to seek
the advice of their spiritual counsellor.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
Book Section
PeerReviewed
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Nagyné Frauhammer, Krisztina (2016) Sexuality and Spirituality in 19th - 20th century hungarian catholic prayer books. In: Religion, Culture, Society. MTA-SZTE Vallási Kultúrakutató Csoport, Szeged, pp. 9-24.
Kapcsolat:
MTMT:3248552