Recruiting young love
Subtitle: how Christians talk about homosexuality
By: Mark D. Jordan
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780226410449
Description: "Explores more than a half century of American church debate about homosexuality to show that even as the main lesson--homosexuality is bad, teens are vulnerable--has remained constant, the arguments and assumptions have changed remarkably. The story is told through a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, interviews, memoirs, and even pulp novels; the result is a fascinating window onto the never-ending battle for the teenage soul."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sexual characters; title: Degenerating youth; title: First reports of hidden worlds; title: A social problem; title: Spirit of the homophile race; title: Meeting face to face; title: Churchly liberations; title: Saving their children; title: Coming out of homosexuality; title: Polemic in a time of plague; title: In search of new youth; title: Conclusion: How not to talk about sex in church.