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While the use of psychoanalytic hermeneutics here is likely to raise various red flags for potential religious readers (especially for those who have been informed that Sigmund Freud was hostile toward religion), this book presents a rather different Freud by focusing on religious sublimation.","brand":"Cascade Books","offers":[{"title":"Digital (delivered electronically)","offer_id":59023966699855,"sku":"9781498203029","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":59023971844431,"sku":"9781498203036","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":59028376650063,"sku":"9781498203012","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1033\/2114\/1583\/files\/9781498203012.jpg?v=1791321169"},{"product_id":"porneia-9781610975827","title":"Porneia","description":"Porneia means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body. 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Abstinence, once associated with the enhancement of fertility, becomes the key to salvation. The first monastic regimes, and the means by which men and women curtailed and overcame their desire for one another, are described in detail. Centuries of concern with fertility became, in this revolutionary period, an obsession with chastity in this world and a secure place in the next.\n\nThis is a tour de force of scholarship and historical anthropology. 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