The Church of England, Sexual Morality & Institutional Decision-making

By Laura Ramsay Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom

Homosexual law reform was supported by influential sections of the Church of England.

Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality

By David Geiringer Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.

Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue

By Gillian Frank LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.

The Manly Priest: Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in the Medieval Period

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality

The story of the imposition of clerical celibacy in the Anglo-Norman realms.

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold

By Heather Munro Prescott 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.