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White, Heather Rachelle.

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Homosexuality, gay communities, and American churches: A history of a changing religious ethic, 1946--1977.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Homosexuality, gay communities, and American churches: A history of a changing religious ethic, 1946--1977./
Author:	White, Heather Rachelle.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Adviser: R. Marie Griffith.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
Subject:	Gender Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3273538
ISBN:	9780549136576

Homosexuality, gay communities, and American churches: A history of a changing religious ethic, 1946--1977.
White, Heather Rachelle.

Homosexuality, gay communities, and American churches: A history of a changing religious ethic, 1946--1977. - 199 p.

Adviser: R. Marie Griffith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2007.

This dissertation examines mainline Protestants' discussions about homosexuality from the postwar era through the mid-1970s, as clergy began to address the issue publicly but before their opinions became a matter of prolonged, church-wide debate. During this time period, the dominant societal frameworks for understanding and categorizing homosexuality---medical research that classified homosexual behavior as an illness, legal codes that criminalized it, and religious teachings that unquestionably declared it a sin---came under increasing scrutiny and debate. According to existing historical accounts of the mainline Protestant debates over homosexuality, the church-wide disagreements were a response to broad societal changes, which came to the fore with the rise of the modern gay rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This dissertation, in contrast, argues that discussions about the meaning of homosexual sinfulness provided the very arena in which other questions about the status of homosexuality were first contested. The discussions by church leaders registered and at times even anticipated the broader societal debates. Rather than merely responding to a changed social context, the church-wide debates that arose in the late 1970s grew out of church leaders' earlier discussions about homosexuality and their ongoing efforts to challenge social and legal penalties that targeted homosexuals. The received shifts in church leaders' approaches to homosexuality influenced positions on all sides of the churches' debates over homosexuality, including both those who pressed for change and those who adamantly defended a return to tradition.

ISBN: 9780549136576Subjects--Topical Terms:

898693
Gender Studies.

Homosexuality, gay communities, and American churches: A history of a changing religious ethic, 1946--1977.
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