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Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet
Kelsy Burke
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Description for Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet
Paperback. Shows how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. The author examines how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 b/w illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520286337
SKU
V9780520286337
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About Kelsy Burke
Kelsy Burke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Reviews for Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet
Kelsy Burke's new study of evangelical sexuality websites tells a new, finely nuanced and wholly convincing story... fascinating and suggestive. Reading Religion Burke has constructed an artfully crafted and instructive text that extends sexual work in the sociology of religion, documents the complexity of contemporary religious-sexual relations, and provides a useful example of integrating sexual, gender, and religious ... Read more