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After the wrath of God : AIDS, sexuality, and American religion / Anthony M. Petro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petro, Anthony Michael, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Religious life--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This study demonstrates how Christian leaders and AIDS activists in the United States have posited HIV/AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic and asks how this understanding has informed cultural and political debates about prevention, healthcare, and sex education all over the world. Drawing upon archival research, oral histories, and textual analysis, this book maps the moral language regarding sexuality - and especially homosexuality - through which evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholic leaders, and gay and lesbian AIDS activists made sense of and responded to the epidemic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-006477-3
- 0-19-939130-0
- 0-19-939131-9
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