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Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

Taylor G. Petrey

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Description:Awards and Distinctions2021 Best Book Award, Mormon History AssociationFinalist, 2020 Association for Mormon Letters Award (Religious Nonfiction)A 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleStarred Review, Publishers WeeklyStarred Review, Library JournalTaylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself.As Petrey details, LDS leaders have embraced the idea of fixed identities representing a natural and divine order, but their teachings also acknowledge that sexual difference is persistently contingent and unstable. While queer theorists have built an ethics and politics based on celebrating such sexual fluidity, LDS leaders view it as a source of anxiety and a tool for the shaping of a heterosexual social order. Through public preaching and teaching, the deployment of psychological approaches to "cure" homosexuality, and political activism against equal rights for women and same-sex marriage, Mormon leaders hoped to manage sexuality and faith for those who have strayed from heteronormativity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism. To get started finding Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Awards and Distinctions2021 Best Book Award, Mormon History AssociationFinalist, 2020 Association for Mormon Letters Award (Religious Nonfiction)A 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleStarred Review, Publishers WeeklyStarred Review, Library JournalTaylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself.As Petrey details, LDS leaders have embraced the idea of fixed identities representing a natural and divine order, but their teachings also acknowledge that sexual difference is persistently contingent and unstable. While queer theorists have built an ethics and politics based on celebrating such sexual fluidity, LDS leaders view it as a source of anxiety and a tool for the shaping of a heterosexual social order. Through public preaching and teaching, the deployment of psychological approaches to "cure" homosexuality, and political activism against equal rights for women and same-sex marriage, Mormon leaders hoped to manage sexuality and faith for those who have strayed from heteronormativity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism. To get started finding Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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