A Short History of Sex Worship
Publisher: The Banton Press
Published: 1940
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781856521697
First sentence: One of the most curious as well as one of the most instructive chapters in the history of religions is that dealing with phallic worship-- the worship of the generative powers in man and Nature.
Notes: Forward by Maurice Casey, Emeritus Professor of Semitic Language and Literatures in the University of Manchester.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
class: section
title: Introductory Forward; pagenum: xi
class: section
title: Author's Preface; pagenum: 1
title: The Worship of Fertility
class: chapter
label: I.; pagenum: 7
label: II.
class: chapter
title: The Gods of Ancient Egypt; pagenum: 19
label: III.
class: section
title: Phallicism in the Bible; pagenum: 43
label: IV.
title: Sex-Worship in the Ancient East; pagenum: 48
title: The Cult of Venus
label: V.; pagenum: 65
label: VI.
title: Sex and Religion in Ancient Rome; pagenum: 83
label: VII.
title: India's Phallic Faiths; pagenum: 101
label: VIII.
title: Early European Forms of Sex-Worship; pagenum: 119
title: Sex in Christian History
label: IX.; pagenum: 155
title: Sex-Symbolism in Religion
label: X.; pagenum: 198
title: Sex-Worship and Science
label: XI.; pagenum: 217
title: Bibliography; pagenum: 219
title: Index