Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World

By James Cates Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

Amish sexuality through the lens of Queer theory.

The Chastity Plot

By Lisabeth During Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

Why has the ideal of chastity has persisted for so many centuries?

David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland

By Charlie Lynch Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom

In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

By Marc David Baer Author Interviews, History of Sexuality, Religion and Sexuality

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.

The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal and the Medieval Clergy

By Dyan Elliott Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Scandal-averse policies have enabled the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents within the Church.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Author Interviews, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.