{"id":852,"date":"2007-04-12T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2007-04-12T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T18:30:00","slug":"sex-in-world-religions-other-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Sex in World Religions & Other Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

¶ First, here is a better version of the Pagan rosary story, “‘Hail Persephone:’ Pagans Retool the Rosary,”<\/a> which has a photo and also some of the rosary invocations.<\/p>\n

Kimberly Winston’s article was also mentioned at the GetReligion blog on religion and journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ My recent post on Carlos Castaneda<\/a> must have reflected the zeitgeist. “The Dark Legacy of Carlos Castaneda”<\/a> by Robert Marshall treats him as “the 20th century’s most successful literary trickster.”<\/p>\n

Castaneda was viewed by many as a compelling writer, and his early books received overwhelmingly positive reviews. <\/em>Time called them “beautifully lucid” and remarked on a “narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies.” They were widely accepted as factual, and this contributed to their success.<\/em> (Thanks, Jason<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

¶ Those mysterious<\/a> Etruscans . . . seem to have led lives filled with varied sex<\/a>. (Site probably NSFW, unless you are a classicist.) These images and texts reflect the upper rungs of Etruscan society, I suspect. (Thanks: 2blowhards<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

¶ In case you forgot, “all acts of love and pleasure<\/a>” are definitely not Allah’s rituals. In fact, nudity during sex invalidates marriage<\/a>, says a high-ranking Islamic cleric. Some of his colleagues disagree, saying that nudity is permissible as long as you don’t look at your partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ First, here is a better version of the Pagan rosary story, “‘Hail Persephone:’ Pagans Retool the Rosary,” which has a photo and also some of the rosary invocations. Kimberly Winston’s article was also mentioned at the GetReligion blog on religion and journalism. ¶ My recent post on Carlos Castaneda must have reflected the zeitgeist. 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