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Книга Innocent Ecstasy Peter Gardella

Innocent Ecstasy

How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure

Автор: Peter Gardella
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: Oxford University Press Inc
Наличност: Външен склад
Изпращаме след 10-18 дни
48.25 € 94.36 лв
Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics al...

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Автор
Peter Gardella
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
страници
210
EAN
9780195036121
ISBN
0195036123
Enbook ID
04512334
Издател
Oxford University Press Inc
Теглоt
456
Размери
159 x 236 x 17

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Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. It is the first book to explain how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values. Tracing our strange journey from the hands of Jonathan Edward's angry Puritan God to the loving embrace of Marabel Morgan's Total Woman, Gardella draws his surprising evidence from widely disparate sources, ranging from Catholic confessionals to methodist revival meetings, from evangelical romances to The Song of Bernadette. He reveals the sexual messages of mainstream Protestant theology and the religious aspirations of medical texts found at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He sheds new light on such well-known figures as Henry Adams, Margaret Sanger, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and introduces us to such fascinating, lesser-known characters as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Sylvester Graham, inventors of corn flakes and Graham crackers, who devised their products as anti-aphrodisiacs. While detailing the development of moral obligations to pursue sexual pleasure and to follow certain patterns of sexual practice, Gardella incidentally provides one of the few books to bring together the liberal Protestant, Roman Catholic, and evangelical perspectives on any aspect of American culture. Gardella attributes the American ethic of sexual pleasure to the eagerness of Americans to overcome original sin. This led to a quest for perfection, or complete freedom from guilt, combined with a quest for ecstatic experience. The result, he maintains, is an attitude that looks to sex for what was once expected from religion.

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