Reforming Sodom : Protestants and the rise of gay rights

Reforming Sodom : Protestants and the rise of gay rights /

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, this book challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. The book argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in th...

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Main Author: White, Heather Rachelle, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edition:1 [edition].
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Protestant churches > Doctrines.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Protestant churches.
Protestant gay people > Religious life.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Protestant churches
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity
Protestant churches > Doctrines
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Table of Contents:
  • How the Bible came to speak about homosexuality
  • The therapeutic orthodoxy
  • Writing the homophile self
  • Churchmen and homophiles
  • Sanctified heterosexuality
  • Born again at Stonewall
  • Afterlives of an invented past.

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