SEXUALITY IN JUDAISM. ANALYSIS OF SELECTED RELIGIOUS RULES DEFINING SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR (Seksualnosc w judaizmie z perspektywy psychologicznej. Analiza wybranych przepisów religijnych regulujacych zachowania seksualne)

• Authors: Arcimowicz Beata
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Any discussion of the factors determining people's sexual behaviour should take into account the cultural context in which such behaviour is exhibited. When a researcher or therapist disregards this context, his/her inference lacks important input data. Psychologists, who study human beings, are frequently accused of ignoring the cultural context. However, development of such areas as psychology of culture and intercultural psychology helps to change this approach. More and more often psychologists look for an answer to the most important question - 'why does somebody behave in this particular way?' and they study human behaviour 'with culture in the background'. Researchers, who try to include culture in studies on individual sexual behaviour encounter the barrier of their own ethnocentrism and often that of the lack of knowledge about the rules of sexuality existing in traditions other than their own. Knowledge of these norms helps them better understand the diversity of sexual behaviour, the diversity of taboo areas. It also helps them to look at their own, culturally conditioned sexual behaviour reflexively. In this article the authoress presents the cultural context of some sexual behaviour in Judaism (e.g. related to marriage, birth control, homosexual practices).

Keywords

EN

ETHNOCENTRISM; JUDAISM; RELIGIOUS RESTRICTIONS AND DIRECTIVES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; SEXUALITY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Journal: Lud
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 93
• Pages: 141-158
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Arcimowicz Beata

• Beata Arcimowicz, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Psychologii, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA07077