Christians under Covers (eBook)

Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet

Kelsy Burke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
240 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96158-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 sexualityencouraging 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.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
A Note to Readers on Quoting Online Content

Introduction
1 • Godly Sex: A New Evangelical Sexual Logic
2 • Overcoming the Obscene: Using Religion to Talk about Sex
3 • Virtual and Virtuous: Forming Online Religious Communities
4 • Sexual Awakening: Defining Women's Pleasures
5 • What Makes a Man: Making "Bad" Sex "Good"
Conclusion: Paths of Desire

Appendix A: Websites Mentioned by Name in the Book
Appendix B: Doing Internet Ethnography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Christianity • Christians • Christian sex • christian sex toys • christian sexual behavior • Christian Sexuality • christian sexuality websites • christians sexual play • conservative christian sexuality • evangelical • evangelical sex • faith based talk about sex • faithful sex • god and sex • godly sex • good sex • Religion • Religious • religious aspects of sex • religious sexuality • religious talk about sex • Romance • Sex • sex in mass media • sexual behavior • talk about sex • virtuous sex
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96158-7 / 0520961587
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96158-6 / 9780520961586