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Anthony M. Petro
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Oxford University Press
Published
August 2015
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Author
Anthony M. Petro
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
August 2015
£31.23
Free UK Delivery
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After the Wrath of God
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One Sunday in February 1987, protesters stood outside the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst in Massachusetts, whose minister planned to hand out condoms during his sermon, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the AIDS crisis. The minister gave out nearly five hundred condoms as the audience exploded into applause. But he could not hang around to enjoy it; having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately. Thus was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the mid-1980s. After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Anthony Petro shows how religious leaders and organizations posited AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic, and analyzes how this construction has informed cultural and political debates about public health and sexual morality. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, this book examines the much broader-and more influential-range of mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Catholic groups that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and care in the U.S.
The AIDS epidemic, Petro argues, effected a shift in Christian rhetoric regarding sexuality. Mainstream religious groups almost uniformly called for compassion for those afflicted with the disease. While the Christian Right focused on what not to do, an increasing number of mainstream religious leaders promoted instead a positive prescription for sex, one more readily taken up in public health endeavors and sex education curricula alike-a vision that informs debates over sexual morality to this day.
Author
Anthony M. Petro
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
August 2015
Weight
548g
Page Count
320
Dimensions
155 x 240 x 19 mm
ISBN
9780199391288
ISBN-10
0199391289
Eden Code
4319930
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Author/Creator: Anthony M. Petro
ISBN: 9780199391288
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: August 2015
Weight: 548g
Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 19 mm
Eden Code: 4319930