After the Wrath of God
Subtitle: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199391288
Subjects: Aids (disease), religious aspects; Sex, religious aspects, christianity; Aids (disease), patients
Description: This study demonstrates how Christian leaders and AIDS activists in the United States have posited HIV/AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic and asks how this understanding has informed cultural and political debates about prevention, healthcare, and sex education all over the world. Drawing upon archival research, oral histories, and textual analysis, this book maps the moral language regarding sexuality - and especially homosexuality - through which evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholic leaders, and gay and lesbian AIDS activists made sense of and responded to the epidemic.