Descript |
xiii, 176 p. ; 22 cm. |
Contents |
1. Introduction : Who are the conservative Christians, and why the focus on Focus on the Family? ; Connection to previous research ; Structure of the book ; Theoretical considerations and methodological consequences -- 2. Religious interests between Bible and politics : Love between gays or lesbians is wrong, because the Bible tells me so? ; A confluence of forces: religion and politics -- 3. America and the state of respectable Christian romance : same-sex couples and the moral and spiritual stamina of the nation ; Theologies of Christian marriage ; American (Christian) marriage: a history of change ; Protecting the body politic: a political analysis ; Conclusion: Religion, respectability, and the great American wedding -- 4. Same-sex love and the impossibility of Christian femininity and masculinity : Gays and feminists: from logic to rhetoric ; Christian masculinity as crisis ; Submission and the crisis of Christian womanhood ; Complicated flows of power in ordinary family life -- 5. A political and sexual theology of crisis : Beyond functionalism ; Struggling for the Christian life ; A political and sexual theology of crisis. |
ISBN |
9780231156202 (hbk.) |
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0231156200 (hbk.) |
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