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Sexual heresies : religion, science, and sexuality in modern Britain / Joy Dixon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Joy, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Spiritual Phenomena Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex and history.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, the new sexual sciences—from anthropological accounts of religion as rooted in ancient fertility cults to psychoanalytic theories that explained religious experience in terms of psychosexual development—characterized religion as closely connected to the sexual. The outcome, as Joy Dixon argues, was a new sense that religion itself could be sexually suspect. One result was an increasing concern to police 'sexual heresies' to produce a supposedly normal (healthy, monogamous, and heterosexual) religiosity. The overall effect was a narrowing of the sexual possibilities inside' orthodox' religion and the association of alternative forms of religion with dissident sexualities that continues to shape both religion and secularism today. Drawing on a wide range of materials from diverse elements of British society, this book emphasizes the dynamic relationships between the histories of religion and of sexuality and the historical contingency of the categories we use to understand the relationship between the two."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Religion and the New Science of Sex
- Two. Psychology, Sexuality, and Liberal Modernism
- Three. Gender, Sex, and the Body in Modern Esotericism
- Four. Sin, Salvation, and Sexuality
- Five. Secularism, Anticlericalism, and Sexuality
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Page
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4668-8
- 9781503646681 9electronic book)
- OCLC:
- 1579268731
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