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Christians under Covers

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Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual si...
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  • 09 February 2016
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Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, Kelsy Burke examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. These evangelicals maintain their religious beliefs while incorporating feminist and queer language into their talk of sexuality—encouraging sexual knowledge, emphasizing women’s pleasure, and justifying marginal sexual practices within Christian marriages. This illuminating ethnography complicates the boundaries between normal and subversive, empowered and oppressed, and sacred and profane.
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Pages: 240
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 09 February 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520286337
Format: Paperback
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"Kelsy Burke's new study of evangelical sexuality websites tells a new, finely nuanced and wholly convincing story... fascinating and suggestive."
Kelsy Burke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
A Note to Readers on Quoting Online Content

Introduction
1 • Godly Sex: A New Evangelical Sexual Logic
2 • Overcoming the Obscene: Using Religion to Talk about Sex
3 • Virtual and Virtuous: Forming Online Religious Communities
4 • Sexual Awakening: Defining Women's Pleasures
5 • What Makes a Man: Making "Bad" Sex "Good"
Conclusion: Paths of Desire

Appendix A: Websites Mentioned by Name in the Book
Appendix B: Doing Internet Ethnography
Notes
Bibliography
Index