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Перевод: celibacy

[существительное]
безбрачие; целибат ; обет безбрачия

Тезаурус:

1. Dionne went for the outlaw type, or so she said, then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable, and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door, there she was alone again, smoking a little more than usual, drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away.
2. Neither rejection, protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays.
3. By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people.
4. Furthermore, what is true of the phenomenon of celibacy as a metaphor of an appropriate form of apartness and of integration is also true of individual members of a group such as a religious community.
5. Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone, rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together.
6. Celibacy is interesting because it is counter-cultural.
7. The fusion of patriarchal male dominance, clerical hierarchy and celibacy, as the norm for the ordained, reshaped the definition of celibacy as an expression of superior holiness.
8. But by the late first century, a patriarchal family-oriented Christianity began to counteract and repress this anti-familial and egalitarian construction of celibacy.
9. Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life, rather than as a radical statement by women.
10. If it is lived in that world, the vow of celibacy witnesses to other women and indeed to men.
11. Another image is of celibacy as protest.
12. The holiness of celibacy comes to be identified with the holiness of the sacramental cult.
13. In its earliest impulses celibacy was egalitarian and even subversive of patriarchal family relationships.