Sexual Politics in the Church of England, 1857-1957
Jones, Timothy WillemAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
This volume exposes a surprisingly dynamic and dialogical relationship between theology, feminism, and the new sexual sciences that resists the teleologies of secularisation that dominate the histories of sexuality and Christianity in Britain. The story of Anglican sexual politics told in here firmly rebuts contemporary notions of the Church as an inevitably reactionary institution. On the contrary, it reveals the Church's historic capacity to renegotiate gender and sexual ideologies, and shows how it was often at the forefront of sexual change in British society.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This volume exposes a surprisingly dynamic and dialogical relationship between theology, feminism, and the new sexual sciences that resists the teleologies of secularisation that dominate the histories of sexuality and Christianity in Britain. The story of Anglican sexual politics told in here firmly rebuts contemporary notions of the Church as an inevitably reactionary institution. On the contrary, it reveals the Church's historic capacity to renegotiate gender and sexual ideologies, and shows how it was often at the forefront of sexual change in British society.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Church of England
Church of England
Sex
Sex
Sex role
Sex role
Women in the Anglican Communion
Women in the Anglican Communion
Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Catholicism
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Christianity