Religion and the Social Order30 Christianity Sexuality in a Secular Age

This volume rigorously analyses how contemporary Christianity through various expressions in Western societies engages with non-heterosexual issues in the context of the formidable dynamics of secularisation, exploring its decline as an agent of social control and received moral authority. From the mid-twentieth century controversies within Christianity addressed matters of sexual diversity - same-sex marriage, sexual rights, and the place of sexual minorities within the churches. Several decades further on this volume reflects on principal developments, exposing from a sociological perspective that these issues are largely the product of rationality, individuality, community decline, state initiatives and other features of a profoundly secular age where Christianity has lost its cultural grip. This volume considers contestations through scrutinising changing theologies and expressions of liberal-conservative Christian divides by examining LGBT+ politics and churches and campaigning groups in their responses to profound social change.

Pagina's: 288, Hardcover, Koninklijke Brill BV