Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure

by Peter Gardella

Book Overview

Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. It is the first book to explain how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values.
Tracing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195036123
• ISBN13: 9780195036121
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"