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After the Wrath of God - AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (Hardcover)
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After the Wrath of God - AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (Hardcover)
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One Sunday in February 1987, protesters stood outside the Unitarian
Universalist Church of Amherst in Massachusetts, whose minister
planned to hand out condoms during his sermon, dramatizing the need
for the church to confront the AIDS crisis. The minister gave out
nearly five hundred condoms as the audience exploded into applause.
But he could not hang around to enjoy it; having received threats
in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary
immediately. Thus was the climate for religious AIDS activism in
the mid-1980s. After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the
story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Anthony Petro
shows how religious leaders and organizations posited AIDS as a
religious and moral epidemic, and analyzes how this construction
has informed cultural and political debates about public health and
sexual morality. While most attention to religion and AIDS
foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, this book examines the
much broader-and more influential-range of mainline Protestant,
evangelical, and Catholic groups that shaped public discussions of
AIDS prevention and care in the U.S. The AIDS epidemic, Petro
argues, effected a shift in Christian rhetoric regarding sexuality.
Mainstream religious groups almost uniformly called for compassion
for those afflicted with the disease. While the Christian Right
focused on what not to do, an increasing number of mainstream
religious leaders promoted instead a positive prescription for sex,
one more readily taken up in public health endeavors and sex
education curricula alike-a vision that informs debates over sexual
morality to this day.
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