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Innocent ecstasy : how Christianity gave America an ethic of sexual pleasure /
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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1985.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 surpr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423738233 9781423738237 1601295863 9781601295866 9780195036121 0195036123 1280439246 9781280439247 0195365151 9780195365153 9786610439249 6610439249 |