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.

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

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

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

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

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

Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality

By Rachel Gordan 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

Orthodox writers sought to educate Americans about Judaism’s approach to sex.

Mainline Protestants and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage

By Heather White LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Mainline Protestants’ policy decisions on same-sex marriage come out of a long history of religious debates over same-sex sexuality.