Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics - Couverture rigide

Griffith, R. Marie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465094759 ISBN 13 : 9780465094752

Editeur : Basic Books, 2018

Synopsis

From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars

Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion. Both those who advocated for greater openness in sexual matters and those who resisted new sexual norms turned to politics to pursue their moral visions for the nation. Moral Combat is a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so ferocious and so intractable.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

R. Marie Griffith is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she directs the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465094759
• ISBN 13: 9780465094752
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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