Sex and the Church in the long eighteenth century: religion, enlightenment and the sexual revolution
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 185744955
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350988002
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781784533779
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 384-page examination of the eighteenth-century sexual revolution considers the multi-layered interaction of sex and religion. Joint authorship allowed for a diversity of interpretive viewpoints, including theological, literary, artistic and historical perspectives. Many recent works have written religion out of the period’s sexual changes, but it was central to attitudes to immorality, marital sex, chastity, homosexuality and obscenity. This argument challenges the prevailing socio-historical secularisation narrative. It required extensive archival research, involving fifteen repositories and wide-ranging use of contemporary printed sources. It addresses debates as disparate as ecclesiastical history, marital and family history, history of printing, and historical theology.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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