After the Wrath of God - Aids, Sexuality, & American Religion

After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues that AIDS effected a shift in Christian rhetoric regarding sexuality.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• AIDS, Sexuality, and Moral Citizenship


• Chapter One


• Emerging Moralities: American Christians, Sexuality, and AIDS


• Chapter Two


• Governing Authority: The Surgeon General and the Moral Politics of Public Health


• Chapter Three


• Ecclesiastical Authority: AIDS, Sexuality, and the American Catholic Church


• Chapter Four


• Protest Religion!: ACT UP, Religious Freedom, and the Ethics of Sex


• Afterword


• Notes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Anthony Petro is Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University.

Summary

After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues that AIDS effected a shift in Christian rhetoric regarding sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony M. Petro, Anthony M. (Assistant Professor of Religion Petro, Petro Anthony M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2019
• EAN: 9780190064778
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006477-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Medical Sociology, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases