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After the Wrath of God - AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (Paperback)
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After the Wrath of God - AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 800
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On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and
driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian
Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their
protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his
congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the
need for the church to confront the seemingly ever-expanding
crisis. The minister's words and actions were met with a standing
ovation from the overflowing audience, but he could not linger to
enjoy their applause. Having received threats in advance of the
service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately upon finishing
his sermon. Such was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the
1980s. In After the Wrath of God, Anthony Petro vividly narrates
the religious history of AIDS in America. Delving into the culture
wars over sex, morality, and the future of the American nation, he
demonstrates how religious leaders and AIDS activists have shaped
debates over sexual morality and public health from the 1980s to
the present day. While most attention to religion and AIDS
foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, Petro takes a much
broader view, encompassing the range of mainline Protestant,
evangelical, and Catholic groups-alongside AIDS activist
organizations-that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and
care in the U.S. Petro analyzes how the AIDS crisis prompted
American Christians across denominations and political persuasions
to speak publicly about sexuality-especially homosexuality-and to
foster a moral discourse on sex that spoke not only to personal
concerns but to anxieties about the health of the nation. He
reveals how the epidemic increased efforts to advance a moral
agenda regarding the health benefits of abstinence and monogamy, a
legacy glimpsed as much in the traction gained by abstinence
education campaigns as in the more recent cultural purchase of gay
marriage. The first book to detail the history of religion and the
AIDS epidemic in the U.S., After the Wrath of God is essential
reading for anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and
public health.
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