Christians under Covers

Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28633-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

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 sexuality—encouraging 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Kelsy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Sonstige nonkonforme und evangelikale Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kelsy Burke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln.