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Innocent ecstasy : how Christianity gave America an ethic of sexual pleasure / Peter Gardella.
LIBRA BT708 .G37 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardella, Peter, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex.
- Sin, Original.
- Sexual ethics--United States.
- Sexual ethics.
- United States.
- United States--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- viii 202 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Contents:
- I Catholic Sensuality 9
- Basic Doctrine 9
- Passion, Pleasure, and Sin 12
- Psychological Standards 21
- II Protestant Reactions 25
- Anti-Catholic Pornography 25
- Background and Results 32
- III Medical Christianity 39
- Sex and Sin in the Colonies 39
- The Reduction of Sin to Sex 44
- The Religion of Health in Protestant Theology 49
- The Fear of Passion and Sexual Practice 56
- Constituencies of the Victorian Consensus 62
- IV Medical Prophets 68
- Presbyterian Yoga 68
- Other Voices in the Wilderness 74
- V Evangelical Ecstasy 80
- The Rapture of Rebirth 80
- Methodism and Sanctification 85
- VI The Song of Bernadette 95
- Messages of the Beautiful Lady 95
- Mary in America 102
- The Ideal Woman 118
- VII Redemption through Sex 130
- Margaret Sanger 130
- G. Stanley Hall 140.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 187-194.
- ISBN:
- 0195036123 :
- OCLC:
- 11548269
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