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Recruiting young love : how Christians talk about homosexuality

Author: Mark D Jordan
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Explores more than a half century of American church debate about homosexuality to show that even as the main lesson--homosexuality is bad, teens are vulnerable--has remained constant, the arguments and assumptions have changed remarkably. The story is told through a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, interviews, memoirs, and even pulp novels; the result is a fascinating window onto the never-ending  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark D Jordan
ISBN: 9780226410449 0226410447
OCLC Number: 657223907
Description: xx, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Sexual characters --
Degenerating youth --
First reports of hidden worlds --
A social problem --
Spirit of the homophile race --
Meeting face to face --
Churchly liberations --
Saving their children --
Coming out of homosexuality --
Polemic in a time of plague --
In search of new youth --
Conclusion: How not to talk about sex in church.
Responsibility: Mark D. Jordan.

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