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    Celibacy: From Different Cultures to Early Christianity
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University,Keffi., 2011-02-01) Ayuba, J.M.
    Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus raises certain questions: What significance does such an individual, and such a choice, have for the human family and community as a whole? Is celibacy possible? Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy? These questions will serve as a guide in understanding the history of celibacy in the ancient cultures and early Christian era, which this paper seeks to examine. Keywords: Celibacy, Vestal Virgins, Religion, Sufism, Christianity