Dec 26, 2024  
2021-2022 Theological School 
    
2021-2022 Theological School
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CHST 655 - God, Sex, and the Making of American Families

3 credits
Examines how religious ideas and practices - particularly forms of Christianity - have influenced both private and public understandings of sex and family in the United States. Themes may include the regulation of sex practices within and outside of marriage; the conflation of monogamous marriage with virtue and republican ideology; the meanings of domesticity; domesticity’s shadows, including slavery and polygamy; and same-sex love and the emergence of modern sexual identities and practices. Prerequisite: CHST 503 .



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