TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael Stephen Patton
PY  - 2026
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Catholic Sexual Pathology and the Western Mind
T2  - The Late Medieval Era, Vol. 3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1746078
N2  - Catholic Sexual Pathology continues to document the correlation between Catholic sexual orthodoxy and Catholic sexual pathology. Like the previous volumes in this landmark work, it is interdisciplinary, examining Catholic sexual pathology through the lens of history, theology, philosophy, law, medicine, sexology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and anthropology. The book represents a pioneer effort across a 50-year span to empirically document the mass human suffering and damage caused by Catholic sexual orthodoxy in both the Catholic mind and the Western mind. Themes covered in this volume include: the Inquisitions (1227-1965), which punished people for unorthodox human sexual behavior with penance, prison, torture and death; the Crusades (1095-1396), which murdered millions of Greeks, Arabs, Jews and Christians across Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and slavery, which the Catholic Church practiced in northern Europe until 1200, with serfdom enduring in northern Europe until 1700 and slavery in southern Europe until 1870.
KW  - pagan sexual dualisms, soul over body, intellect over emotions, men over women, God over sex, sex negative church doctrine for common people, sex negative church formation for common people, sex repression and violence, sex negative fear, sex negative guilt, sex negative shame, sex negative anxiety, reign of terror, inquisitions, crusades, courtly love, cult of Mary, virgin birth, slavery, serfdom, Atlantic Slave Trade Commerce, white supremacy, capitalism, usury, black death, black devils, virginity, clerical celibacy, clerical concubinage, concubines, papal sex tax (cullagium), clergy sexual promiscuity, abortion, infanticide, mental suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, physical suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, emotional suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, sexual suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, spiritual suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, social suffering and damage from sex negative church formation, prison, torture, death, mass death, male clergy sex negative formation in seminaries, male religious sex negative formation in monasteries, female sex negative formation in convents, sex positive vs sex negative church doctrine, Roman church government/Roman Curia, Michael Stephen Patton, Catholic Sexual Pathology and the Western Mind
LA  - English
ER  -