Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Reforming Sodom : Protestants and the rise of gay rights / Heather R. White.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1 [edition]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781469624792
  • 1469624796
  • 9781469624129
  • 1469624125
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reforming Sodom.DDC classification:
  • 261.8/357660973 23
LOC classification:
  • BR115.H6 W446 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
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.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

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.