Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community

By William Jankowiak 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Cosmology cannot overcome the universality of the pair bond.

Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World

By James Cates NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Amish sexuality through the lens of Queer theory.

The Chastity Plot

By Lisabeth During NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, 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, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, 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 History of Sexuality, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, 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 Childhood and Youth, Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

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