Christians under Covers
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Christians under Covers

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Christians under Covers

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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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520961586
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures and Tables
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. A Note to Readers on Quoting Online Content
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Godly Sex: A New Evangelical Sexual Logic
  8. 2 Overcoming the Obscene: Using Religion to Talk about Sex
  9. 3 Virtual and Virtuous: Forming Online Religious Communities
  10. 4 Sexual Awakening: Defining Women’s Pleasures
  11. 5 What Makes a Man: Making “Bad” Sex “Good”
  12. Conclusion: Paths of Desire
  13. Appendix A: List of Christian Sexuality Websites
  14. Appendix B: Doing Internet Ethnography
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index