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Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980by Laura Ramsay.
Author:	Ramsay, Laura.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024.
Description:	xiii, 265 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	SexReligious aspects
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56392-8
ISBN:	9783031563928$q(electronic bk.)

Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980
Ramsay, Laura.

Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980[electronic resource] /by Laura Ramsay. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024. - xiii, 265 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Genders and sexualities in history,2730-9487. - Genders and sexualities in history..

1. Introduction -- 2. Moral welfare: The Church in the vanguard of thought and action -- 3. Modernising Christian views on sex -- 4. Interwar debates on birth control -- 5. Assembling a Christian view of homosexual citizenship -- 6. Towards a permissive and secular society? -- 7. Homosexual law reform -- 8. The Church paints itself into a corner -- 9.The Collapse of the Moral Consensus -- 10. Conclusion.

This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England's institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality. Across a long and previously underexplored chronology, the book examines various ways in which Anglicans shaped and popularised understandings of sex and desire, conceptions of sexual morality, and notions of sexual citizenship. Its account begins in the interwar years when the church exerted a powerful influence on attitudes and approaches towards sex and morality, moves through the challenges of the post-war years when Anglicans continued to debate and construct the new moral landscape of the permissive society, and ends in the late twentieth century when the church's preferred means of functioning as an agent of mediation ultimately meant it lost pace with new approaches towards sexual identities and relationships. Despite its historically established role in guiding the nation, by the late 1970s, the church had unwittingly painted itself into a corner by provoking internal disputes that it struggled to resolve. As its compromise positions became outdated, the church's views increasingly fell out of favour and contributed to its gradual demise as a former expert on sexual issues. Laura Ramsay is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Bournemouth University, UK. She has published articles and chapters on Christianity, gender, and sexuality in modern Britain and Europe.

ISBN: 9783031563928$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-56392-8doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

436981
Church of England
--Customs and practices.Subjects--Topical Terms:

969510
Sex
--Religious aspects

LC Class. No.: BX5056

Dewey Class. No.: 261.835

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