This book was published in 1958 by University Books, New York. The book measures 6 3/8 inches by 9 ½ inches and contains 288 pages. The cover shows minor signs of wear, hardly worth mentioning. The title is in gilt on the front and down the spine. The hinges are strong and the spine is tight. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book is very good.

Contents:

Book One - Far Away and Long Ago: The Erotic Motive in Primitive Religion
1. Far Away and Long Ago
   
2. Primitive Man in Love and Faith
   
3. In The Foundry of the Gods: The Story of the Generative Divinities
4. The Spirit of Love in God and Man: The Erotic Worship of the Generative Divinities
5. Love’s Hidden Ways

Book Two - In the Temple of the Gods: The Worship of the Generative Divinities
1. A Day with Baal
2. A Night with Aphrodite
3. At a Dionysian Mystery
4. Twilight with Moloch
5. The Dance of the Saktas

Book Three - In the House of the Lord: The Erotic Motive in the Monotheistic Religions of Today
1. Prologue. In the House of the Lord
2. Love in the Synagogue
3. Romance in the Church
4. Marriage in the Mosque
5. Longing in the Dark

Book Four - The Spirit of Revolt in Religion: The Sexual Motive in Sectarianism
1. Rebels in the Faith
2. Love the Force of Rebellion
3. The Revolt Against Religion
4. The Revolt Against God
5. The Revolt Against Man

Epilogue. God’s Way in Love
Bibliography
Index

Excerpt - Introduction:
In the years since 1930 when Professor Goldberg dared to set forth in popular form his thesis that sex and religion are intimately related, there has been considerable recognition of the existence of that relationship by the observant folk he then awakened. There has been also of late in the minds of the more intelligent laity a growing suspicion that scholarly experts in anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion, before Goldberg’s time and since, have not spelled out the whole story.

Of course, it has been admitted in scholarly tomes and technical journals that sex and religion may have been inseparable among primitive peoples, and are even now seasonally affiliated in remote regions where well our contemporary ancestors. But these admissions have been couched in academic gobbledygook, usually in French or German scientese, while the more realistic descriptive details of sex customs are still often phrased in Latin, for fear, presumably, that the lay reader might, surepitiously and immorally, try to fill the prescription himself.

Further and more important, the obvious persistence of phallic survivals and sexual motivations and manifestations in current Christianity and Judaism is a disturbing fact which is seldom proclaimed even in professional media, except euphemistically, and never in popular mass-circulation books and magazines…
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