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Title:
Devotions and desires : histories of sexuality and religion in the twentieth-century United States / edited by Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather R. White.
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
ix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Sex--United States--History--History--20th century.
Sex customs--United States--History--20th century.
Americans--History--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.
Religion and politics--United States--History--20th century.
1900-1999
Other Authors:
Frank, Gillian, editor.
Moreton, Bethany, editor.
White, Heather Rachelle, 1974- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
We who must die demand a miracle: Christmas 1989 at the metropolitan community church of San Francisco / Lynne Gerber. Winnifred Wygal's flock: same-sex desire and Christian faith in the 1920s / Kathi Kern -- Subversive spiritualities: yoga's complex role in the narrative of sex and religion in the twentieth-century United States / Andrea R. Jain -- Purity and population: American Jews, marriage, and sexuality / Rebecca L. Davis -- Sex is holy and mysterious: the vision of early twentieth-century Catholic sex education reformers / James P. McCartin -- Real true buds: celibacy and same-sex desire across the color line in Father Divine's peace mission movement / Judith Weisenfeld -- Sexual diplomacy: U.S. Catholics' transnational anti-birth control activism in postwar Japan / Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci -- Modernizing decency: citizens for decent literature and covert Catholic activism in Cold War America / Whitney Strub -- Family planning is a Christian duty: religion, population control, and the pill in the 1960s / Samira K. Mehta -- From women's rights to religious freedom: the Women's League for Conservative Judaism and the politics of abortion, 1970-1982 / Rachel Kranson -- Fascinating and happy: Mormon women, the LDS church, and the politics of sexual conservatism / Neil J. Young -- The making of gay and lesbian rabbis in reconstructionist Judaism, 1979-1992 / Rebecca T. Alpert and Jacob J. Staub -- Founding new Sodom: radical gay communalist spirituality, 1973-1976 / Daniel Rivers -- We who must die demand a miracle: Christmas 1989 at the metropolitan community church of San Francisco / Lynne Gerber.
ISBN:
1469636255
9781469636252
1469636263
9781469636269
OCLC:
(OCoLC)992580602
LCCN:
2017030398
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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