Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: More than Missionary: Doing the Histories of Religion and Sexuality Together -- Winnifred Wygal's Flock: Same-Sex Desire and Christian Faith in the 1920s -- Subversive Spiritualities: Yoga's Complex R...

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Main Author: Frank, Gillian (Author)
Contributors: Moreton, Bethany (Other) ; White, Heather R. (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Further subjects:B Sex customs-United States-History-20th century
B Sex-United States-Religious aspects-History-20th century
B Religion and politics-United States-History-20th century
B Electronic books
B Americans-Sexual behavior-History-20th century
B United States-Religion-History-20th century
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Frank, Gillian: Devotions and Desires : Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,c2018. - 9781469636252
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: More than Missionary: Doing the Histories of Religion and Sexuality Together -- Winnifred Wygal's Flock: Same-Sex Desire and Christian Faith in the 1920s -- Subversive Spiritualities: Yoga's Complex Role in the Narrative of Sex and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States -- Purity and Population: American Jews, Marriage, and Sexuality -- Sex Is Holy and Mysterious: The Vision of Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Sex Education Reformers -- Real True Buds: Celibacy and Same-Sex Desire across the Color Line in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement -- Sexual Diplomacy: U.S. Catholics' Transnational Anti-Birth Control Activism in Postwar Japan -- Modernizing Decency: Citizens for Decent Literature and Covert Catholic Activism in Cold War America -- Family Planning Is a Christian Duty: Religion, Population Control, and the Pill in the 1960s -- From Women's Rights to Religious Freedom: The Women's League for Conservative Judaism and the Politics of Abortion, 1970-1982 -- Fascinating and Happy: Mormon Women, the LDS Church, and the Politics of Sexual Conservatism -- The Making of Gay and Lesbian Rabbis in Reconstructionist Judaism, 1979-1992 -- Founding New Sodom: Radical Gay Communalist Spirituality, 1973-1976 -- We Who Must Die Demand a Miracle: Christmas 1989 at the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco -- Afterword -- Recommended Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
ISBN:146963628X