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Interview: Author Elizabeth Abbott discusses her new book about celibacy and what it means to be celibate
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NPR Weekly Edition
07-08-2000
Interview: Author Elizabeth Abbott discusses her new book about celibacy and what it means to be celibate
Host: LAURIE HOWELL
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
LAURIE HOWELL, host:
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Celibacy has served variety of needs through time
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; Celibacy has served variety of needs through time By ELLEN CLEGG Boston Globe Tuesday, May 16, 2000 A History of Celibacy. By Elizabeth Abbott. Scribner. 493 pages. $30. Celibacy is a long dry season that comes by choice, chance or coercion. Laced with spirituality or sorrow, it has had many
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A HISTORY OF OUR EXPERIMENTS WITH CELIBACY
The Boston Globe
; Celibacy is a long dry season that comes by choice, chance, or coercion. Laced with spirituality or sorrow, it has had many adherents through time: Mary, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi. It has linked mystics to God, kept women in their place and allowed them to serve the exalted Oracle of
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After giving up smoking, giving up sex was easy Elizabeth Abbott likes men - she was married twice - but now she's hooked on celibacy
Evening Standard - London
; ... Russell) and two cats (Hortense and Snoopy). She is an Anglican, though Christians (and their history) have often shocked her. The news, in 1990, that celibate Christian Brothers at an orphanage in Newfoundland were active paedophiles motivated her to spend six ...
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After giving up smoking, giving up sex was easy; Elizabeth Abbott likes men - she was married twice - but now she's hooked on celibacy.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... Russell) and two cats (Hortense and Snoopy). She is an Anglican, though Christians (and their history) have often shocked her. The news, in 1990, that celibate Christian Brothers at an orphanage in Newfoundland were active paedophiles motivated her to spend six ...
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Wednesday Book: No sex, please, we're disturbed and power-hungry A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott (Lutterworth Press, pounds 15)
The Independent - London
; CLIVE JAMES, in one of his early volumes of autobiography, outlines his pet theory of revolving virginity, developed to cope with the few highs and many lows of his juvenile love life. If you go too long between sexual partners, he suggests, you revert - practically if not biologically - to
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A History of Celibacy.(Book Review)
Journal of World History
; 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
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Celibacy an important tradition in many cultures
Charleston Gazette
; NEW YORK - For a species that has transformed mating into an obsession, human beings over the centuries have shown an abiding interest in the opposite of sex - celibacy. The practice is in the spotlight these days because of the molestation scandal that has rekindled debate over whether the Roman
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Sex cases put celibacy back in spotlight
The Boston Globe
; ... before, most recently in 1990 when Archbishop Eugene Marino of Atlanta and one of his diocesan priests were forced to resign when news media reported the sexual liaison each had with the same woman, Vicki Long, a former lay minister. And a former Massachusetts ...
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Archbishop wants priests to marry; Yet Pope insists on celibacy rule as cardinals summoned to Vatican to discuss paedophile scandal sweeping America
The Sunday Herald
; ONE of Scotland's leading Catholic clergymen, Archbishop Keith O'Brien, has called for the 900-year-old vow of celibacy for Catholic priests to be scrapped - while the Pope was firmly reinforcing its importance. Last night, in an address to bishops in Nigeria, Pope John Paul II insisted that
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OBIT - BURTNER, ELIZABETH ABBOTT
Roanoke Times & World News
; Elizabeth Abbott Burtner, 91, of Blacksburg, died Thursday, December 8, 2005. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg.
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