Christians under Covers : Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet / Kelsy Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Kelsy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christians--Sexual behavior--United States.

Internet--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sex in mass media--United States.

Sex in mass media.

Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, Kelsy Burke examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. These evangelicals maintain their religious beliefs while incorporating feminist and queer language into their talk of sexuality-encouraging sexual knowledge, emphasizing women's pleasure, and justifying marginal sexual practices within Christian marriages. This illuminating ethnography complicates the boundaries between normal and subversive, empowered and oppressed, and sacred and profane.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE TO READERS ON QUOTING ONLINE CONTENT

Introduction

ONE. Godly Sex: A NEW EVANGELICAL SEXUAL LOGIC

TWO. Overcoming the Obscene: USING RELIGION TO TALK ABOUT SEX

THREE. Virtual and Virtuous: FORMING ONLINE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES

FOUR. Sexual Awakening: DEFINING WOMEN'S PLEASURES

FIVE. What Makes a Man: MAKING "BAD" SEX "GOOD"

Conclusion: PATHS OF DESIRE

APPENDIX A: List of Christian Sexuality Websites

APPENDIX B: Doing Internet Ethnography

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (University Press Scholarship Online, viewed May 29, 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961586

0520961587

OCLC:

934706273