Reforming Sodom : Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights / Heather R. White.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• White, Heather Rachelle, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Protestant gay people--Religious life.
• Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
• Protestant churches--Doctrines.
• Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1 [edition].

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, this book challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. The book argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching.

Contents:

• How the Bible came to speak about homosexuality
• The therapeutic orthodoxy
• Writing the homophile self
• Churchmen and homophiles
• Sanctified heterosexuality
• Born again at Stonewall
• Afterlives of an invented past.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 979-88-908844-9-7
• 979-88-908845-0-3
• 1-4696-2479-6

OCLC:

915941190