Sex and sects : the story of Mormon polygamy, Shaker celibacy, and Oneida complex marriage /

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"Sex and Sects tells the story of three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America--Shaker celibacy, Mormon polygamy, and the Oneida Community's free love. It explores why these bold experiments rose and then fell primarily over the course of the nineteenth century and almost exclu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davenport, Stewart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:American spirituality
Temas:
Shakers > History.
Oneida Community > History.
Oneida Community.
Shakers.
1800-1899
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Latter Day Saint churches > History.
Sexualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION / Philosophy
Mormon Church.
United States > Church history > 19th century.
United States > Religious life and customs.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse > 19e siècle.
United States.
Church history.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: The Perfectionist snow-bound funeral orgy of 1839 and what this book is not about
  • More
  • Metanarrative
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual
  • Sexual
  • Institutional
  • Shaker family drama
  • Polygamy and persecution at Nauvoo : the Mormons, 1842-1844
  • "A scatteration at Oneida"
  • Succession, relocation, and proclamation : the Mormons, 1844-1852
  • Selfishness and status
  • Control
  • Revival
  • Gender
  • Children
  • The Shakers, from revolution to refuge
  • The triumph of bread and butter at Oneida
  • The war on polygamy and the temporal salvation of the Mormon Church.

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