A History of Celibacy.(Book Review) From: Journal of World History | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By ELIZABETH ABBOTT. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2001. 496 pp. $17.50 (paper).

The author of this entertaining and virtually exhaustive treatment of celibacy in world history is, appropriately, both a journalist and a historian.

The scope of the book is vast, perhaps far too vast, for a single volume. She covers celibacy and its counterpart, sexuality, in such widely disparate areas and times as ancient Greece, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Native American religions, and Jainism. She focuses most of her attention on early, medieval, and contemporary Christianity. ...

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