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Sexual politics in the Church of England, 1857-1957

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 firml...

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Main Author: Jones, Timothy Willem, 1981-
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Subjects:
Church of England -- History -- 19th century.
Church of England -- History -- 20th century.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Church of England -- History -- 19th century.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Church of England -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Church of England -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Church of England -- History -- 20th century.
Women in the Anglican Communion -- History -- 19th century.
Women in the Anglican Communion -- History -- 20th century.
Anglo-Catholicism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Anglo-Catholicism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780191744952

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