Other dreams of freedom : religion, sex, and human trafficking
Zimmerman, Yvonne CAuthor
American Academy of Religion.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers an exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American approaches to human trafficking. She argues that the religious values of American Protestantism have indelibly shaped the federal government's approach to engaging human trafficking, and that the trajectory of the US's anti-trafficking efforts cannot be fully grasped without an understanding of the unique ways in which sex, morality and freedom are connected in Protestant Christian configurations of the moral world.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers an exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American approaches to human trafficking. She argues that the religious values of American Protestantism have indelibly shaped the federal government's approach to engaging human trafficking, and that the trajectory of the US's anti-trafficking efforts cannot be fully grasped without an understanding of the unique ways in which sex, morality and freedom are connected in Protestant Christian configurations of the moral world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
Introduction: gender, sex and religion in U.S.-American anti-trafficking activism -- Trickle down -- Standing on the premises: theology and religion in the Bush administration's anti-trafficking project -- Theological foundations of moral imagination -- Cultural foundations of moral imagination -- Bad sex.
Human trafficking
Christianity and politics
Sex
Liberty
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Christianity