Format:
Online-Ressource (256 p.)
ISBN:
9780226327648
Content:
In The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of their antigay agenda, Herman explores how and why these groups made antigay activity a top priority, and how it relates to their political history."A penetrating analysis of the Christian Right's antigay agenda and of how that agenda is derived from the Christian Right's peculiar vision of American history and the Christian faith."-Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Boston Book Review"Public intellectualism at its best. . . . A comprehensive summary of the conserv
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The Antigay Agenda; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Devil Discourse and the Shifting Construction of Homosexuality in Christianity Today; 3. Representing Homosexuality and Its Agenda; 4. No Lesbians, Gay Lesbians, Feminist Lesbians; 5. (II)legitimate Minorities: The Construction of Rights-(Un)deserving Subjects; 6. The Christian Right versus Gay Rights in Colorado, 1992-1996; 7. Regulation, Restoration, Reconstruction: Conservative Christianity and the State; Afterword: Thoughts on Backlash and Utopia; Notes; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226327693
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226327648
Additional Edition:
Print version The Antigay Agenda : Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right
Language:
English
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