Sex & Religion

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The oldest argument we have with ourselves. Every tradition that organized the sacred also had to rule on the body — what desire means, what it costs, what it might be for. MacCulloch's history of sex and Christianity, Augustine confessing his way out of his own flesh, Bataille making eroticism a theology of its own, and the witnesses — Baldwin, Colette, Tolstoy — who lived the verdict. Read for how the sacred and the erotic keep defining each other.