After the wrath of God : AIDS, sexuality, and American religion / Anthony M. Petro

Author: Petro, Anthony Michael, 1981-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Emerging Moralities: American Christians, Sexuality, and AIDS -- 2.Governing Authority: The Surgeon General and the Moral Politics of Public Health -- 3.Ecclesiastical Authority: AIDS, Sexuality, and the American Catholic Church -- 4.Protest Religion! ACT UP, Religious Freedom, and the Ethics of Sex.

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.

Subject(s)

AIDS (Disease)—Religious aspects—Christianity
Sex—Religious aspects—Christianity
AIDS (Disease)—Patients—Religious life—United States

ISBN

9780199391318 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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