After the wrath of God: AIDS, sexuality, and American religion
This study demonstrates how Christian leaders and AIDS activists in the United States have posited HIV/AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic and asks how this understanding has informed cultural and political debates about prevention, healthcare, and sex education all over the world. Drawing upon a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Christianity
/ AIDS
/ Sexual ethics
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| Further subjects: | B
Sex
Religious aspects
Christianity
B AIDS (Disease) Patients Religious life United States B AIDS (Disease) Religious aspects Christianity |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This study demonstrates how Christian leaders and AIDS activists in the United States have posited HIV/AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic and asks how this understanding has informed cultural and political debates about prevention, healthcare, and sex education all over the world. Drawing upon archival research, oral histories, and textual analysis, this book maps the moral language regarding sexuality - and especially homosexuality - through which evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholic leaders, and gay and lesbian AIDS activists made sense of and responded to the epidemic. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0199391319 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199391288.001.0001 |