Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development

by Chapman Cohen

[133] Lea, Hist. of Sacerdotal Celibacy, 1884, p. 42.

[134] Cited by Michelet, Priests, Women, and Families, p. 130.

[135] Spiritual Wives, ii. pp. 55-6.

[136] Spiritual Wives, pp. 176-7, 181.

[137] Ibid., pp. 84-6.

[138] The Russian Church and Russian Dissent, p. 201.

[139] Lea, Hist. of Sacerdotal Celibacy, p. 40.

[140] Visit to the Russian Empire, i. p. 254. Merejkowski, in his historical novel, Peter and Alexis, gives a more detailed account of the sexual ceremonies of this sect. See also Heard's description, Russian Church, p. 258.

[141] Russian Church and Russian Dissent, p. 262.