Introduction; Chapter One: Auricular Confession and the Crisis in the Church; Chapter Two: Confession and Confessors in Transition; Chapter Three: The Spanish Inquisition and Its Jurisdiction Over Solicitation; Chapter Four: Trial and Punishment; Chapter Five: The Soliciting Confessor; Chapter Six: Victims and Unwilling Penitents; Chapter Seven: Submissive and Ambivalent Penitents; Chapter Eight: Carnal Behavior and Sexual Disorders; Chapter Nine: Solicitation and Confession in the Anticlerical Imagination; Conclusion; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I.
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Drawing upon a wealth of actual cases and trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition, this work documents the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. It argues that the Counter-Reformation Church actually helped to foster sexual solicitation in the confessional.
Sexuality in the Confessional : A Sacrament Profaned.
Catholic Church-- Clergy-- Sexual behavior-- Spain-- History-- 16th century.
Catholic Church-- Clergy-- Sexual behavior-- Spain-- History-- 17th century.