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

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

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 0 comments

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 0 comments

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

Religious and Reproductive Politics in the United States since WWII

By Rebecca Davis 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

We are only beginning to understand the role of “religion” in American debates over reproductive rights.

Reading Silences in Histories of Religion and Sexuality

By Philippa Koch Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

How do we, as scholars of religion, interrogate the silences in our sources?

Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994

By Miriam Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 6 comments

What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States?

Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Pedagogy, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

Syllabus for histories of sexuality and religion in the twentieth-century United States.